My South Padre Island: Fair Well To South Padre

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Fair Well To South Padre

Hello, Everyone,

I doubt very much that anyone's visited this blog in a long time. I started it just after my parents passed on as a kind memorial to them, and as a love letter to South Padre Island for being a place my parents loved and from which they took a great deal of pleasure.

But, we've sold their house on South Padre and our lives have moved on. While I will always be fond of the island, I guess I should close the book on that part of their lives.

Oh, and speaking of books, you might want to check out a book I did about my parents which uses SPI as a kind of metaphor for them. It's called Padre (surprise, surprise) and it is here on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1792646909/

And here's the cover:

But, otherwise, I guess I'll be shutting down this blog, or at least no longer posting to it. If you want to see more of my work, try my other blogs, such as explosive-cargo, which is here:

https://explosive-cargo.blogspot.com/

If you have visited this site, thank you for your attention. And thanks, too, to the people and places of SPI.

cheers

Michael Jay Tucker

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About My South Padre Island Art

This is my little love letter (with pictures) to South Padre Island, Texas.

To explain, I have a special relationship with SPI. Which is odd, on some level, because I’ve never lived on the island for more than a week or so at any one time. I’m not a winter Texan or a snowbird. I’ve never been to Spring Break. I can’t even say I’ve always liked the place.

Yet, my parents loved the island. They visited it at least three times a year for almost four decades, in spite of problems and pains and hurricanes. They ended up owning a little duplex there, and it was their hobby and their project, almost their pet. The island, then, was their refuge, the place to which they fled when they wanted to escape the problems of the world.

And, when they died, it was to South Padre that I took their ashes...and scattered them to the winds and the waves.

So, because my parents loved South Padre Island, I did as well.

This blog, then, is my love letter to SPI...and to Port Isabel, and to the rest of the southmost Texas gulf coast. It is an expression of my affection for the island, and my respect for it, and, yes, sometimes, my exasperation with it. But not to worry. Some degree of exasperation is normal enough. No healthy relationship is entirely free of it.

What’s here? Well, there will be some notes, some writing. And, too, there will be some links to the little videos I’ve begun making as a hobby.

But, chiefly, what you’ll find here are my experiments in mixed media—mostly water color, modified photography, and so on. In recent weeks, I’ve started doing a good many of these, many based on things I’ve seen or remembered from my time on South Padre.

I hope you like them.

Two crass commercial issues. First, I am trying to sell some of these images. You can get them as posters at the Etsy shop I run with my wife, who does photography (and does it so very well!)

Second, I mentioned that my parents had a duplex on the island. It’s a great little place, really, right on the bay side. But, now that they’re gone, I’m going to have to sell it. If you’re interested in a vacation home on the water, drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch with the realtor.

Until next time, take care, and please enjoy the pictures.

mjt

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