Man... what a fabulous day.
We had intended to make a run over to the Flea Market in Bowie this weekend, but that whole area has been fighting wildfires for the past several days. Apparently, they got hit pretty hard and alot of people lost their homes. A huge area got burned over, and I'm sure it will be a while before things settle down and get back to normal.
As an alternative plan, we decided to check out the much smaller Flea Market in Bonham, Texas. It's a little closer, but the conflict of dates with Bowie Trade Days has meant that its been a couple of years since we've gone to Bonham.
I'm really glad we did! We had one of our best treasure hunting trips today. My wife bought several miscellaneous pieces of glassware, we picked up two old oak school chairs that should refinish out beautifully, and I found a couple of really nice Whitetail Deer racks (one with complete skull) that are destined for use/display in the room of our house that is decorated in a hunting/mountain theme.
My favorite find of the day, however, is this:
It's a "Pittsburgh Bungalo Heater" water heater. Last patent date is 1915. It has two brass nameplates, copper fittings on the side, an embossed castle, and an embossed lion face on the front.
Pretty freaking awesome!!
It was all I could do to keep from starting the cleanup when we got home, but I've got several other projects already going - so she'll have to wait a bit. Not sure what I'll do with it, besides clean/paint. Possibly some type of lamp?
After Trade Days, we stopped by the Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham. Most of the cemetery is "current", but right as you enter the front gate there's a wonderful old section dating back to the late 1800's. It's full of beautiful headstones:
You don't see detail like the lace on the little girl's dress too often. Especially in markers that date back over 100 years.
This next headstone was my favorite. It wasn't the prettiest, or the morst ornate. In fact, it's pretty plain. The sentinment inscribed at the bottom almost broke my heart, though.
See my flickr stream (link on the right) to see more headstones from Willow Wild cemetery.
From there, we drove toward Denison. We went the back roads (as usual). It was a pretty drive, and would have been nice on the bike - but then we couldn't have carried home all our crap :) Near Bells/Savoy, we passed a house that had an interesting yard ornament in the back yard:
We had intended to make a run over to the Flea Market in Bowie this weekend, but that whole area has been fighting wildfires for the past several days. Apparently, they got hit pretty hard and alot of people lost their homes. A huge area got burned over, and I'm sure it will be a while before things settle down and get back to normal.
As an alternative plan, we decided to check out the much smaller Flea Market in Bonham, Texas. It's a little closer, but the conflict of dates with Bowie Trade Days has meant that its been a couple of years since we've gone to Bonham.
I'm really glad we did! We had one of our best treasure hunting trips today. My wife bought several miscellaneous pieces of glassware, we picked up two old oak school chairs that should refinish out beautifully, and I found a couple of really nice Whitetail Deer racks (one with complete skull) that are destined for use/display in the room of our house that is decorated in a hunting/mountain theme.
My favorite find of the day, however, is this:
It's a "Pittsburgh Bungalo Heater" water heater. Last patent date is 1915. It has two brass nameplates, copper fittings on the side, an embossed castle, and an embossed lion face on the front.
Pretty freaking awesome!!
It was all I could do to keep from starting the cleanup when we got home, but I've got several other projects already going - so she'll have to wait a bit. Not sure what I'll do with it, besides clean/paint. Possibly some type of lamp?
After Trade Days, we stopped by the Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham. Most of the cemetery is "current", but right as you enter the front gate there's a wonderful old section dating back to the late 1800's. It's full of beautiful headstones:
You don't see detail like the lace on the little girl's dress too often. Especially in markers that date back over 100 years.
This next headstone was my favorite. It wasn't the prettiest, or the morst ornate. In fact, it's pretty plain. The sentinment inscribed at the bottom almost broke my heart, though.
See my flickr stream (link on the right) to see more headstones from Willow Wild cemetery.
From there, we drove toward Denison. We went the back roads (as usual). It was a pretty drive, and would have been nice on the bike - but then we couldn't have carried home all our crap :) Near Bells/Savoy, we passed a house that had an interesting yard ornament in the back yard:
What the hell is that all about??
We ended up at Huck's Catfish, which is a favorite spot of ours off Hiway 75 between Sherman & Denison. This is the "half order", with fries and fried okra:
We ended up at Huck's Catfish, which is a favorite spot of ours off Hiway 75 between Sherman & Denison. This is the "half order", with fries and fried okra:
When I was as big as a house, I could handle the full order. Now that I'm only the size of a garage, the half order is just right. Huck's gets my vote for BEST CATFISH in the history of EVER.
3 comments:
Neat to see someone writing about Bonham, Bells, and the Texoma area.
Thanks for stopping by! We're always poking around the backroads in this area over the spring, summer, and fall.
Beautiful pictures, the grave of the child moved me to tears. I've lost a child, born too early, and it still. . . . thank you for that respectful remembrance of a parents pain.
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