I’ll not stoop to bowdlerizing Frost and talking about virtues of good fences, but I was struck by the fencing in my Houston neighborhood during my stay there. These fences are shoulder-high or higher. Usually iron, some have decorative finials at the posts. Some cover palings with a unique feature of plastic carpeting mimicking a […]

Sometimes I am fond of Tennessee, sometimes I am not. Mixed. It does not have the prettiness of the rolling hills of Kentucky or the well ordered, size manageable farms. It feels more scrappy either becoming or trying reinvention. The water ways that made for thriving towns and the railroads that connected to the burgeoning […]