This Used To Be My Playgrownd

Several years ago (when I worked at UTMB), my friend Alex (who lives in the UK now) and I decided to take a mini road trip to Crockett, Texas, home of ... well ... well. It's central Texas. Enough said.

We went there because my great-grandmother used to live there before she passed away, and i have a lot of memories spending Easters and Thanksgivings there, particularly this park that was behind her house. I remember there used to be some dear that were domesticated (tho kept in a very large pen) and we would walk over and feed them with wahtever we could find. (Apparently some asshole several years ago went to visit them and decided to feet them with a shot gun. He's in prison now.)

Anyway, we wandered around the wintery park (as it was February) and played on the sad, decaying playground toys and looked at the old WWII stuff (a tank, etc). My friend Alex took some pictures. She decided to have some fun with Photoshop the other day and sent me this:

We had a lot of fun that day. We wandered about "town" which was like 3 streets, had some local bbq, and a delightful dessert at Dairy Queen. Collectively we spent about 4 hours there (including the park and eating) before becoming desperately bored. So we left at like 1pm or something. Regardless, we enjoyed our time together. Kind'a miss it, actually. And it's sad that she now lives so far away. But at least we still chat on occasion.