Bowles Creek Gospel Bluegrass

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Bowles Creek Gospel Bluegrass

From Left to Right

Ray Chanler-banjo

Mike Tucker-guitar, harmony

Bailee Stanley-vocals, rhythm guitar

Kella Stanley-harmony, vocals, bass

Dale Stanley-vocals, harmony, mandolin

Bailee Stanley, 11, sings lead vocals for Bowles Creek on “It’s Me Again, Lord” during an early afternoon session Saturday at the 10th Annual Salmon Lake Gospel Bluegrass Festival near Grapeland. Accompanying Stanley were Ray Chanler, left, on banjo; her mother, Kella Stanley, on bass; her father, Dale Stanley, on mandolin; and Mike Tucker on guitar. According to Kella Stanley, Bailee has been singing since she was 4 years old, and has sung with the Overton-based group for the past three or four years. Picture taken by BETH FOLEY/The Palestine Herald--May 2007

Grand Design
By Billy Adams

In fields and along roadsides,
slender grass stalks, laden with seeds,
wave in the soft morning breeze.
In lawns, they spring up overnight
to sow next year's harvest.

Flowers long dormant,
start their frantic race to bloom
before being snuffed out by frost.

Mud wasps hum with their multi-note song
as they build cocoons for their offspring.

Hummingbirds put on spectacular
acrobatic displays.
In a short time they will fly south.

Soon God will descend
with his paintbrush
and convert the green forest
to a multicolor wonder,
where individual leaves
vary in hue.

In a short time
colors will fade.
A year from now
the cycle repeats.

If God interacts in detail
with temporal things,
I know He watches me.

Dale and Kella Stanley

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It is Fun, Exciting, and Rewarding to play and sing Gospel Bluegrass Music!!