• Events,  Fort Davis,  Life,  Shop Local,  West Texas

    Celebrating

    Grand Opening Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    Our Grand Opening on the Eve of Summer On Saturday June 19th Somewhere Over  the Rainbow will have a Grand Opening Celebration sponsored by the  Fort Davis Chamber of Commerce!! The Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is scheduled for 4:00 p.m., but we’ll be partying all day if you’d like to come by and join us. In honor of our Grand Opening (In real-time we’ll have been open just about a month) we’re having a Sale. Everything will be discounted 15% all day Saturday.  We’ll have Drinks and Snacks on hand, and a chance to sign-up…

  • Events,  Fort Davis,  Life

    Earth Day 2021

    Earth Day

    Each year, on April 22nd, since 1970, we have celebrated Earth Day. It’s original and abiding purpose has been as an observance to focus Awareness on the many ecological challenges this planet faces. Much has changed in the intervening years. Certainly more people are aware of the many problems confronting our environment, and the ongoing impact of issues like climate change, industrial pollution, waste disposal and the need for change in the way the agro-industrial complex produces our food, fiber and fuel. In the months to come, we at Somewhere Over the Rainbow will address…

  • Life,  West Texas

    Is it Spring Yet?

    2020 in the Rearview

    Living With 2020 in the Rear-View The winter, from whatever perspective I choose, has been both long and short. Time which was meandering along at a manageable pace, began flying by shortly after the New Year. Somehow it is March, and I have yet to settle in to 2021.  2020 now, that was a Year. A very long, very full, sometimes frightening and always eventful twelve months that seemed to last much longer. Except for the #deepfreeze and the Great Texas Blackout it flowed into (Now that slowed down Time for a few cold and…

  • Life,  West Texas

    Best Laid Plans

    Snowy Road Fort Davis

    Dreaming of a New Year in White As 2020 comes to a snowy and most definitive end, I can’t help but reflect on just what an odd and unexpected year it has been. Certainly, as we ended 2019, the decision to move back to our Home in Texas was already made. That, in and of itself, was quite enough to make the year since both singular and significant to us. However, we had no idea what this crazy year held in store for us, or indeed, the world. I am a great proponent of choosing…