And already the weather prognosticators are calling for a preview of winter like we hardly know…
Today’s weather is shaping up to be a virtual repeat of Monday’s around the Houston area, with the National Weather Service calling for gray skies, rain and temperatures in the 50s. But the key word in the forecast comes Friday: snow, or at least a chance of it.[1]
For the past week or so I’ve been enjoying fall color that seems more fall-like than in the years past that I can recall. Nothing like the colors from our trip in November of 2007 when we enjoyed our first visit to what must have been peak color along the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia with a pass through the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. But the colors in my backyard this season have been more vivid than any I can recall.
On Thanksgiving we visited my mom’s like we do every year…When I walked outside into her backyard I was amazed at the changes in the last year. She has always had a neat backyard with a lot of yard art scattered around, but for the past couple of years she has been fighting with construction mess and then the aftermath of Ike…So the transformation this year was striking…Have a look…
In case you are wondering…My mom is very proud of being a Texan…And she collects birdhouses. Felder Rushing would be proud of her bottle trees and her use of all of the found “art”.
Your Mom is a yard artist of extreme talent. From my experience in documenting Texan lawn decorations, stars always play a major theme. I was not disappointed.
I love the bird house collection.