Roundrock Journal

A typical Ozark, late-summer scene. There’s the TOYOTA out in the pecan plantation. The dam to the right is still holding up. The weather was mild for mid-August. The horseflies...

The deer cross the land at Roundrock, blissfully heedless of things like property lines and fences. They come. They go. They stay for a while, and then they move on. The same is probably true of other...

My worry about them was that because this stretch of the lake is comparatively shallow even at full pool – only a foot or two deep from a gently sloping shore – the trees in the water wo...