My last entry to the #POBPhotocontest was truthfully lacking in the very thing the photo was to show...water. Due to an ongoing drought in my area, I had to settle for photographing a small puddle. The

This is my first post for #threetunetuesday, created by @ablaze. I have leaflets advertising concerts I attended back in the 1980's, so I got the idea to share the image and three of the songs that you

...or is this going on in other states too? It seems like people in Texas will buy anything shaped like Texas. Or at least vendors will try to sell anything and everything shaped like Texas. This is a

I'm posting these photos as my entry to the daily #monomad contest, created by @brumest and curated by @monochromes and the black and white community: CategoryBlack and White Photography CameraCanon EOS

The theme of this week's POB photo challenge by @friendlymoose is WATER. The POB Photo challenge is a photo contest with a different theme each week. You can see the rules of the POB photo challenge HERE.

I'm posting these photos as my entry to the daily #monomad contest, created by @brumest and curated by the black and white community. I took these pictures on a couple of recent walks in the Texas Hill

I accompanied my wife to another estate sale last weekend and found some silver. Not a vintage bar this time, but some Constitutional silver and some Mexican silver. My wife left me in the dust heading

I'm posting these photos as my entry to the daily #monomad contest, created by @brumest and curated by the black and white community. I mentioned in my post about bluebonnets that the photos were taken

My last post, and a few comments that I've made on other's posts, mentioned that Spring has officially arrived in the Texas Hill Country, bringing with it lots of colorful wildflowers, chief among them

The theme of this week's POB photo challenge by @friendlymoose is GREEN. I had a photo to enter in last week's challenge, but never found the time to post it, so I'm entering this week's challenge ASAP!

"Thanks for taking me to the estate sale, honey," my wife said to me. "Anytime dear. Anytime," I replied. Especially when the estate sale features a vintage, 10 troy ounce bar of .999

Here's my latest Apmex purchase, a five ounce nugget of fine silver from the Scottsdale Mint called the Tombstone Nugget. Each of these solid, .999 Fine Silver bars is uniquely crafted by Arizonans in

A week and a half ago, I shared a moral and financial dilemma I was having. Apmex.com fulfilled my order for a random mint 1/4 ounce gold coin with a coin that had greater numismatic value/Apmex price,

A couple of weeks back, I ordered a 1/4 ounce gold coin on Apmex.com. The coin was to come from a random mint of Apmex's choosing, and was to contain at least 1/4 troy ounce of gold of .999 purity. I used

So, what's up with the title? Chocolate chip scones I get, but why "NOT New Mexico Pueblo Bread?" Well, I'll tell you why. Yesterday morning I was gathering ingredients for a yeast bread recipe

This week's POB photo challenge by @friendlymoose is RELIGION. This is my first time participating in the challenge, which is a photo contest with a different theme each week. You can see the rules of

I recently signed up for the Bullion Card through Apmex. It's a credit card that pays you points for using it, points that can be redeemed at Apmex.com. Specifically, you earn four points for every dollar

I follow @trumpman here on Hive. Today he posted about how he got into stacking silver and Gold. His post was based on a prompt from @thisismylife asking that very question. That got me thinking about

Last summer, my wife and I met her brother and sister-in-law in Las Vegas. We always enjoy visiting the older casinos on Freemont Street, so it wasn't long before we were in the Four Queens Hotel and Casino.

Today, I'm wrapping up my series on the Painted Churches of Schulenburg, Texas. So far, we've toured Praha, Dubina, and Ammannsville. For the final installment in the series, we're moving on to the community