winter fishing

 

Lubbock doesn't have ice fishing like Minnesota but these guys braved a winter afternoon to cast a line at Mackenzie Park.  Their favorite spot is the bridge spanning the waters of the Yellow House Canyon where the Blackwater Draw and Yellow House Draw, tributaries of the Brazos River, merge.  This bridge was built in the late 1930s as part of a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) project.  I bet it is featured in tons of old photographs as Mackenzie Park was a popular gathering spot for local youth, glider pilots and airmen.  This is my mother, about age 18 in her career days working at the Avalanche-Journal and Lubbock National Bank, posed at the same bridge.

 

Jean Smith Fortenberry

 

Mackenzie Park

Lubbock, Texas