JDW Photos and Life

I was  pleasantly surprised by the number of comments back from my reunion e-mail yesterday. I appreciated each of them as most referenced similar feelings to what I tried to express. You just never know.... We met up with a couple Thursday night to go to the Texas play in Palo Duro Canyon. I grabbed a few quick photos of the canyon on the drive in. The panhandle has been blessed with a wet spring and the canyon was beautiful with all the green. If you have never been to this state gem, you are missing something. Growing up, I spent many an hour in this park creating great memories. The sky was clear and the temperatures hot for these photos. Thanks, Doug White https://jdwarchive.blogspot.com/

The old saying of time flies is true. Donnice and I just returned from my 50th high school reunion in Canyon, TX. The last reunion I attended was at the 10 year mark and I pretty much swore to never go to another as some of the high school personalities and clicks were still too prevalent. The group of guys that formed my nexus continued to get together every few years in that half century and that was good enough for me. Time passes and some of those anxieties calm such that I decided to go to this 50th (while encouraged by a couple of close friends deep in the organizing of the event). I'm glad I did. Somewhere around 45 classmates attended out of a graduating class of 180 or so. The total attendance was around 80. Sometimes you don't realize that you made any difference to anyone else until you run across someone that you had not seen in 50 years and had little interaction prior to that. Stories get brought up that I had forgotten and you realize you played a bigger role tha...

Yes, we are still alive - just not much on the photography front. This photo of an Indian Blanket was taken where we viewed the eclipse last month (Burnett, TX). The hill country was in full bloom and this was one of the many flowers in the yard of our hosts. You see a Black-eyed Susan in the background. Thanks, Doug White https://jdwarchive.blogspot.com/