by Do South | Jun 1, 2018 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Marla Cantrell, Fredericksburg Convention and Visitor Bureau, and Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park”][/title] Fredericksburg sits in the land of grapes and peaches, bluebonnets and rivers. In...
by Do South | Nov 1, 2017 | Travel
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Visit Lubbock”][/title] The land in and around Lubbock is golden, offering gifts of grapes and cotton, cattle and corn. For the people rooted to this section of the High Plains, there’s no...
by Do South | Sep 30, 2017 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Landry Hale came from Lubbock, from High Plains country, where the sunsets looked so perfect they could be mirages. “The dust in the air does it,” he said, on that first night I met him at the county fair....
by Do South | Nov 1, 2015 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Stoney Stamper Images: courtesy April Stamper”][/title] My family seems to have a never-ending fascination with animals. We’ve had pretty much every breed of every species you can think of, and I really don’t see any end in...