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Bluebonnets and Paintbrushes
Sunset through the Window
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Bluebonnets abundant on Sugar Ridge Road (Explored Mar 31, 2009 #403)
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Texas Sunset
Sunrise on Galveston Beach
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Cypress Creek, Wimberley, TX
Gorman Falls, Colorado Bend State Park
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, TX
Swimming hole on the Frio
Amarillo by Morning
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Willie Nelson's guitar "Trigger" [Explored 11/15/11, #495]
In 1969, the Baldwin company gave Nelson an amplifier and a three-cord pickup electric guitar, that Nelson played with such intensity he broke it. He sent it to be repaired in Nashville by Shot Jackson, who told Nelson that the damage was too great. Jackson offered him a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic and, at Nelson's request, moved the pickup to the Martin. Nelson purchased the guitar unseen for $750 and named it after Roy Rogers' horse "Trigger". The next year Nelson rescued the guitar from his burning ranch. Constant strumming with a guitar pick over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole—the N-20 has no pick-guard since classical guitars are meant to be played fingerstyle instead of with picks. Its soundboard has been signed by over a hundred of Nelson's friends and associates, ranging from fellow musicians to lawyers and football coaches. In 1991, during his process with the IRS, Nelson was worried that Trigger could be auctioned off, stating: "When Trigger goes, I'll quit". He asked his daughter, Lana, to take the guitar from the studio before any IRS agent got there, and bring it to him on Maui. Nelson then hid the guitar in his manager's house until his debt was paid in 1993. (Wikipedia)
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Hill Country landscape
complete with farm dog and cow skull
Brisket and rib (and Shiner Bock) from Smitty's Barbecue, Lockhart, Texas
Dallas skyline with Trinity River reflection, and the Omni Hotel welcoming the Rolling Stones to Dallas
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You ask me what I like about Texas (Explored 7/6/15, # 263)
Hamilton Pool Preserve near Austin
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Milky Way over Carpenter's Bluff Bridge
on the Red River, Texas/Oklahoma border
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