The Kentucky Trip: the Distillery and Horse Breeding Farm
I shared with you my visit to Churchill Downs before the Kentucky Derby ran back in May. But we had two other days filled with trips to see more events and locations specific to Kentucky. The first day of my trip with friend Elaine to Kentucky was visiting a bourbon...
An Awarded-Winning Mass of Lace Cactus Blooms
On May third I took a picture of this group of echinocereus reichenbachii, lace cactus. I counted fifty buds, more or less, at this time. But it’s hard to do! I may have counted a few more than once, and one or two might not have opened, or opened early by themselves...
Digger and Ellis Funeral Home
Ellis Funeral Home may have turned sixty this year, but its real history started in 1939 when Frank Harrison Ellis, Sr., died, and Frank, Jr., the oldest of the family’s three children was hired by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home in Amarillo so he could help out with...
For God and Country
It used to be called Decoration Day, but Memorial Day is still a day of remembering and honoring those who served our country as a member of our armed forces. Every Memorial Day since 1998, the Bailey County Cemetery Board has organized a service to do just that at...
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