Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
If the tree is a Larch (aka Tamarack) it would certainly have it's needles now if it was still alive; and I'm not at all sure that they would grow in Texas...
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer C/F temp conversion