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Sunsets, a Bowl of Texas Red and More Hard Labor

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  CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO SEE IT FULL SCREEN Ice storm cleanup continues a full three weeks after we began but we have also made time to enjoy what the area has to offer.  Top of the list are sunsets.  After moving to the heavily wooded area of North Georgia in the late eighties, we have been severely deprived of sunsets that were worth writing home about.  Now that we are back in Texas, for the time being, we're taking in all the proper sunsets we can. That's our rig in the foreground. We're in a great place for enjoying the sun as it sets on the lake. Outside of the campgrounds the lake is surrounded by very flat farmland.  In fact, before the San Gabriel River was impounded by the Granger Dam it was flat farmland right up to the river's banks.  While the lake is billed as being about 60' deep, that really only applies to the area directly above the river channel.  A large part of the surface area really isn't much more than waist deep.  The resul...