jmalmin
01-14-2011, 08:53 PM
I had the whole summer to myself. I was happy to be alone with my dogs and a flat bottom boat on the 8 acre lake that I called my front yard. The time I spent paddling around and fishing that summer would come to be the most peaceful memory I would ever own. I mean its mine and it will never leave me. If I ever miss my mother I go there in my thoughts. And sometimes I smile.
East Texas was my home and was for almost 6 years at that point. I was 15. I remember at the end of the summer hearing the school bus grinding and squeaking around the corner to take me back to school for the next year. I know I stood at the edge of a cliff and looked over into a strip mining operation just the other side of the pasture where I had spent my whole summer. The bus squeaked to a stop… This would be the last time I would see my pond. The machines were coming. And the summer had been too short…
http://flyfishn.com/2010/08/the-pond/
East Texas was my home and was for almost 6 years at that point. I was 15. I remember at the end of the summer hearing the school bus grinding and squeaking around the corner to take me back to school for the next year. I know I stood at the edge of a cliff and looked over into a strip mining operation just the other side of the pasture where I had spent my whole summer. The bus squeaked to a stop… This would be the last time I would see my pond. The machines were coming. And the summer had been too short…
http://flyfishn.com/2010/08/the-pond/