Rippy’s Feed Store sits on Mercer Street in the heart of Dripping Springs. We were wandering around it on Saturday as part of a 4-H photography group...
Ah, the delights of festival food! Frog legs are fine by me but do people seriously eat “Garlic Parmesan Pig Ears”? Yuk! This was one of the more...
I mentioned a couple of days ago how seriously people take their barbecue (which, for my British friends, refers to the cooked meat, specifically brisket,...
Another of the colourful characters at Founders’ Day in Dripping Springs last weekend. I’m posting this mostly for my brother-in-law’s...
A friendly face in the parade at Founders’ Day last weekend. This young gentleman was riding on the float from Friendship Creekside Fellowship, a local...
Rodeo clown Leon Coffee and helper Allee Kirkey were on the Dripping Springs Fair and Rodeo float in Friday evening’s Founders’ Day parade....
This weekend is the annual Founders’ Day celebration in Dripping Springs, Texas so I’ve been spending some time with the camera grabbing shots...
The first time I visited the Pound House, probably a decade ago now, I remember being very impressed by the fact that the house had a cistern built into...
Jim Ferrell is the resident blacksmith at the Dr. Pound Historic Farmstead in Dripping Springs, Texas. My youngest loves to visit Jim on a Saturday because...
Ah, the good, old pre-FDA days! I can’t imagine that “Genuine Black and White Ointment” was particularly good for you given that it proudly...
This is a rather different post from usual. I’ve been challenged by Rob Hanson to take part in the Thomas Cook “Explore the Elements”...
This is a section of the downtown Austin skyline shot during our photowalk last Friday evening. I captured the whole thing in two panoramas (one of which...
Here’s the group shot I took of our photowalking group last Friday beside the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue on Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin. It’s...
These took me a little while to figure out. They were hung on the wall of the smithy at the Pound House and I eventually realised that they are animal...
As you may recall, I’m taking part in a fun project this year with a bunch of other photobloggers. #WE35 sets monthly challenges each of which must...
One of the surprise hits of our trip back to Scotland last summer was a visit to the Isle of Mull Cheese Company. Here’s a view taken inside their...
From the “department of incongruity”, here’s a shot taken in Johnson City a few years back. Until recently, there were a bunch of derelict...
Dripping Springs Vocational Ag Boosters is the main local community organisation that supports our 4-H and FFA clubs at the Hays County Show. For UK readers,...
A well-dressed and apparently confident young man waits for his turn in the auction ring at the Hays County Youth Livestock Show auction in Dripping Springs...
Yesterday was the auction at the end of a very successful Hays County Livestock Show and these three young ladies were doing everything they could to drum...
