4 August 2009

Tombstone Tuesday: View from a Texas Cemetery

Filed under: Cemeteries, Osborne Family, Texas by allmyanc

This past weekend I traveled out to the Texas panhandle to my family reunion. Sometimes I forget how beautiful those wide open spaces can be. The reunion was held in Pampa, about an hour south of where I grew up on the high plains. Just this much further south, there are lots of draws and buttes and canyons. Any romantic thoughts I had of the place, however, were put into perspective when we stopped at the Miami Cemetery gate–the sign reads “watch out for snakes.” It made my search for my aunt and uncle’s graves a little more tenuous, but I had help–an intrepid brother and son. Thanks, guys. Brother T. won the prize for spotting the actual graves.