Gary Boyd

A Cold Winter’s Sunrise

Gary BoydJanuary 23, 2025

It's between bus runs. With just patches of snow still showing, the windshield was covered in ice this morning. The temperature is only 32°.

Gary BoydJanuary 22, 2025

Gary BoydJanuary 22, 2025January 22, 2025

I never thought I would see the day that the satellite image would be showing snow cover in SE Texas...

Gary BoydJanuary 21, 2025January 21, 20252

It's early afternoon and I have discovered that seeing a solid field of bright white on the ground outside my windows is a strangely unnerving sight. It's contrary to anything I've really experienced. I've never lived somewhere where snow was common, And the few snows of this magnitude that I've…

Gary BoydJanuary 21, 2025January 21, 2025

https://youtu.be/Z2HdqIHOJpk Not quite what the forecasters were predicting, but... more than we are used to!

Gary BoydJanuary 17, 20252

At least our run-up to the deep freeze next week is being led off by a string of colorful sunrises. Looking at the 10 day forecast this morning has a greater than even chance of... Snow on Tuesday morning. With the low on Tuesday night forecasted to be 21°. Looks…

Gary BoydJanuary 16, 20252

I woke up this morning to 38° on the phone. All of the weather forecasters are teasing about the possibility of snow early next week... We'll see.

Gary BoydJanuary 14, 2025

Gary BoydJanuary 10, 2025January 10, 20251

Catching the early bus on the first friday of the 2025 school year after the first "Winter" storm of the New Year... Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a high school student on the bus at 6:33am every weekday?

Gary BoydJanuary 5, 2025January 5, 2025

Words cannot express a more divergent forecast of extremes.

Gary BoydDecember 31, 2024

Only on the Texas Gulf Coast is New Year's Eve. Feel like early summer.... I'm firing up the grill to smoke a pork roast for our New Year's dinner. The ceiling fans are on because it's well into the '70s on this porch with the sun beating down upon me.…

Gary BoydDecember 28, 2024December 28, 20244

The stockings are unhung,The wreath is down from the door,Decorations have been removed from the treeand wrapped for another year's hibernation in the attic And once again, in anticipation of the New Year, Thunder and Lightning is moving thru our area... Tornado WarningIssued: 12:53 PM Dec. 28, 2024 – National…

Gary BoydDecember 26, 2024December 26, 2024

And all through the house thunder is boomingWhile children sleep after overindulging on the day itself,Up on the housetop the sound of rain and hail can be heard...Luckily, Saint Nick has made it home from his eventful day...So... As I sit and enjoy the peace and quiet of the house,I'll…

Gary BoydDecember 25, 2024March 15, 20242

Merry Christmas from Texas Y'all https://youtu.be/DWaS1rBC3QY?si=Kf3lBYVKU9T1l6Kt This was first recorded by Ernest Tubb in 1952. One of my father's favorite country artists, who I grew up hearing around our home... I really like this version by Michael Martin Murphey.