Photo Contest #97: Back to Your Roots

[JCroft11]

Thanks for the honor of getting to host this month's contest. As I drove home from work yesterday, I realized that as much as I love living in this concrete jungle known as Houston, I miss back home and the simple way of life. I want this contest to showcase what "your roots" mean to you. Here are two examples of what it means to me (I did not take the picture of the swing, but I'm not at my computer with my pictures).

[Blake8504]

Strictly iPhone photos. I don't have one f them fancy cameras.

[El Viejo]

Great topic. I'll see what I can dig up in the way of pics.

[Backwood_Barbie]

Awesome topic, and love that pic of the swing. Those iPhone pics are pretty sweet, regardless of your lack of fancy camera!(:

I'll have to think of something.

[El Viejo]

Here are a few I have. We used to eat at Big Pines Lodge on Caddo when we'd go visit my sister & her husband in Longview. I really liked their catfish. Too bad that place burned down. I've heard the new one isn't as good.

The other two are at the Steele Branch Cemetery (Wilson County, I believe). A bunch of my wife's family is buried there.

[TC]

"Home Away From Home"

[TC]

"Kicked Back"

[perfectstorm]

Cattle Drive

Took this last night (August 4, 2013) with my Iphone 4s while driving the side by side. We were leading our longhorns to the back pasture. They had been cooped up for a week solid after separating their calves from them last weekend when we worked cattle-- so they were ready to play & run to where the green grass was. The setting sun, made for an even cooler effect. We love our longhorns.

[NavyITBowHunter]

Took this last night (August 4, 2013) with my Iphone 4s while driving the side by side. We were leading our longhorns to the back pasture. They had been cooped up for a week solid after separating their calves from them last weekend when we worked cattle-- so they were ready to play & run to where the green grass was. The setting sun, made for an even cooler effect. We love our longhorns.

nice picture.

[perfectstorm]

Also taken yesterday evening with my iPhone 4S. This is the registered herd silhouetted by the sunset.

[perfectstorm]

nice picture.

Thank you!

[JCroft11]

I like the pictures so far. Who else can show us your roots?

[mikemorvan]

Is this the "Intro" thread, or "Entry" thread?

[JCroft11]

This would be the Entry thread. Guess I didn't really think about making two seperate threads. I'm new: forgive the ignorance.

[Patton]

This would be the Entry thread. Guess I didn't really think about making two seperate threads. I'm new: forgive the ignorance.

Should probably be the INTRO thread as Im sure many of these previous pictures weren't taken this month.