Between the lake and the ranch we see many gates. The gates all go into ranches. Many gates are fancy and large and are made of stone. They might be thirty feet on both sides of the entrance and ten or fifteen feet high. Massive gates. Many gates are simple, with a metal gate that someone needs to get out of the car to open. The variety of the gates and the surrounds are quite remarkable. Often you cant see the house from the road so you cant tell if the gate is being pretentious.
In Texas, they have a saying about people. "He is all hat but no cattle". This is not a complement. They mean that the person looks the part of a cowboy and talks the line of a cowboy but really has no cattle at all. it is all for the show.
I always suspect that many of these fancy gates are all about show and that the ranch really is small. These folks bought a ranch and had a big gate to impress their city friends....maybe. It is my guess that the real ranches, the big ones, have those little bitty metal gates that were installed in 1936, while the big fancy ones are all for show. It does make the drive more interesting because the Texas gates are everywhere. They are part of the charm of Texas.
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