South Texas Shooters (Photography That Is!)

Hello again,

It has been a month since I last made an entry, as I have said in other posts I am bad about making my entries recently. I have no excuses and will not bore you with any, so on to more important things.

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and you were able to spend it with the ones you love and the ones who bring a smile to your heart? If Santa visited your home I hope he was good to you and yours? Santa was asked by all in my home to visit those who really needed his smile and grace, so he was asked to skip this stop this year, but I’ll get him next year!

My Christmas was spent with the good folks across the creek, my adopted family here in Texas, boy did we chow down, wonderful food and a good time all around.

I want to share something with you that happened to me on Christmas Eve day. As I was headed out to spend Christmas Eve with some close friends I went by the mail box and found that a cousin from New York had sent me a small package. Never have been good at waiting until Christmas morning I opened it and read the note my cousin had written, inside that note was another note from my aunt who passed away this year in July. Inside the note from my aunt was a very simple ring with a heart on it. This ring was made by my mother many years before I was born, when she made it she gave it to her mother (my grandmother). When my grandmother passed away many years ago, my aunt found the ring and held onto it for safe keeping, with the intent to pass it on to me. Because of military service and moving away from New York this did not occur. My aunt held on to it and wrapped it in a note before her passing. When my cousin found it after her mother’s death she passed it on to me. I will tell you that I did cry upon receiving the ring and reading both notes from my aunt Lucy and my cousin Linda. I cried because a small bit of my mother came back to me after all these years. It has been 41 years since my mother passed on and it has been 18 years since my grandmother passed. I am now closer to them, my mother, grandmother and aunt and the who Vives family today. I have not seen many of them since I have moved to Texas but they are within my heart and shall always remain there!

Thank you for taking a few moments to read this story and being part of my life. As always I shall share some of the photographs that I have taken since my last entry and hope that you enjoy them and that they make you smile.

May the coming New Year be good to you and your families, may we stay close and always be in our hearts wherever we are. I will attempt to do better with my entries here and share my photography with you more frequently. Until the next time “I love you all very much!”

Pete

"I can fly"

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!

Foggy morning

My backyard view

Good bye Santa!

I'm waiting for you to come home!