Tag:High Island
This ‘nodding donkey’ was whirring away on the beach near High Island in Texas. The sun is still a 33 minutes away from breaking above the horizon.
It was a dark and stormy night No, really, it was. Three years ago, on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, my family was among millions of others preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Ike. Our lives had been changed three years before that with the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. Then, with our house in Katy filled with family members who had evacuated New Orleans, we all evacuated when hurricane Rita came rolling in a few weeks […]
Sunday January 2nd was my 48th birthday. As a present, my family graciously gave me the day off. I had previously decided I would like to amble along the Bolivar Peninsular so I took the opportunity to do so. I’ve never been to High Island before so approaching in the darkness, I was unsure exactly what I’d find. What I found, where State Highway 124 intersects State Highway 87 at the beach, was this nodding donkey. High Island is so […]
