Tuesday, December 5th Once again the morning is chilly. Even now it is 49° outside. It's just a bit chilly in the house too. Though, the temperature is still above where it would cause the heater to kick on. But since the days are still mild, I haven't turned the…
Monday, December 4th It's chilly out this morning. Almost too chilly for shorts and a t-shirt.. almost. While waiting for the sun to come up this morning, a song from an album of Rodney Crowell's first published in 1994 came up on my playlist. The album name caught my eye…
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Saturday, December 2nd
Friday, December 1st After more than 2 inches of rain yesterday, this morning dawned very, very foggy... 100% humidity. And it feels anything but fall like outside. The temperature this morning is 66°. But, the fall color is still working its way into the landscape...
Thursday, November 30th It's a damp but warm-ish morning. The weather prognosticators have been foretelling of a possible "weather event" for today. They began casting their warnings a couple of days ago.. One of the nice things about damp air and overcast skies is it brings out the fall colors…
Wordless Wednesday, November 29th
Tuesday, November 28th I was out enjoying the sunset on the back porch where it was still but cool when I realized that I never posted this post this morning... So as I enjoy the relatively cool 57° with the sun just touching the top of the trees still... I…
Monday, November 27th This morning the pre-dawn light brightened a chili start to the day. The low for the night bottom doubted 39° according to my phone. The morning light tends to add more color to the trees than is actually there.. strangely the predominant color around here as we…
Saturday, November 25th On Thanksgiving Day I saw an image of my red oak tree from 4 years ago. In that image, the tree had already gone through its entire fall color change. So I guess this year fall is a little slow in coming... But, as you can see,…
Friday, November 24th It's kind of a blah morning. After an overcast Thanksgiving, we have an overcast Black Friday. And, since this is the one day of the year that I will never shop on.. we'll be hanging around the house and doing the switch over. You know what I…
Thursday, November 23rd The house is decorated and the turkey is in the oven. Family is beginning to arrive.. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving...
Wordless Wednesday, November 22nd
Tuesday, November 21st
Monday, November 20th As we move towards Thanksgiving bits of color are beginning to show. But even so, the predominant color is green.. except at sunrise.
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Wordless Wednesday, November 15th
Tuesday, November 14th The prognosticators are calling for another overcast day. But already this morning I can get a glimpse of patches of blue sky. And looking to the east the sun is trying to peek through the overcast. The day long light rain we had yesterday managed to drop…
Monday, November 13th It's a rainy cool Monday. While the temperature is only 61°, the dampness makes it feel much cooler.. though the wind blowing from the north probably sucks just a few degrees out of the air. It's pretty much been just like this since Friday. Though after our…
Friday, November 10th It's time to switch our focus from the sunrise to the Red oak for the fall. For the past week I have noticed the beginning's of fall color. It started out as just a bit of lighter green scattered through the canopy. But as the week has…
Thursday, November 9th Happy 45th Anniversary Sherry When we stood before the justice all those years ago. I don't think I ever envisioned being here and now... Somehow.. after all these years.. we've become our grandparents. That was brought home to me as we went through mom's house and found…
Wordless Wednesday, November 8th
Tuesday, November 7th It was another pleasant morning on the front porch shared with the birds. I am enjoying every one we are granted.. we don't get all that many pleasant mornings here. What does it say about expectations when a high forecast of 83° is looked forward to as…
Monday, November 6th Nothing more needs to be said....
Friday, November 3rd
Thursday, November 2nd It's quite chilly out this morning. But at least it's 10° warmer than the record low for this morning. I did notice there was a bit of frost on the roof. 5:47 p.m. I decided it was the perfect afternoon to sit on the back porch. The…
Wordless Wednesday November 1st
Tuesday, October 31st It's another wintry morning... At least as far as South East Texas winters go... Overcast, breezy, and quite cool for this time of year. I guess that is to be expected after our unseasonably hot and long summer. I must admit this is not an evening. I…
Monday, October 30th Today opens with overcast skies and blustery winds blowing from what seems like the north pole... https://youtu.be/DIUylHWBl0I
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Wednesday, October 25th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday, October 24th It has been a month since my mother passed away. I spent the day yesterday with my sister sorting through my mother's life. I will be wandering back over to Pasadena again this morning. In the afternoon we have a meeting for my brothers and my sister…
Monday, October 23rd Monday sunrise A closer look at Monday's sunrise And this is Sunday's sunset The eastern horizon at sunset Oh look to the west as the sun goes down.
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Wednesday, September 27th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday September 26th Still keeping on with my life... Y'all stay cool and I'll catch y'all on the other side.
Monday, September 25th Nothing really to say this morning... But, routines keep me sane... I'll catch y'all on the other side.
Sunday September 24th Yesterday my mother passed away. She celebrated her 90th birthday just a month ago. So I will be a bit preoccupied for a bit as I process... I'll catch y'all on the other side...
Friday, September 22nd While it's not totally unpleasant on the front porch this morning, it is quite sticky with the humidity at 97%. The temperature today is a bit higher than yesterday.. which was a bit higher than the day before.. which was much higher than the day before that.…
Thursday, September 21st Well... Paul seems to have wandered its way back north. Morning lows are closing back in on 80°. Yesterday I received an email from Wikitree like I do once a week .. and this week's featured connections were all James's.. Glancing through the list I saw that…
Wednesday, September 20th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday September 19th https://youtu.be/a9EJFTMPDVs We dipped into full fall (for SE Texas) weather this morning. When the temperature and the dewpoint both start off in the mid-sixties... the morning just feels right. When I stepped out to document the morning I saw I already had a chore needing to be…
Monday, September 18th https://youtu.be/t7ck2Qa1zyA It seems that fall has made another appearance this morning. With the morning low just barely pushing 70° and a dew point in the 60's... I could learn to get accustomed to sitting on my porch again. Today's weather On the front porch, it's been a…
Sunday September 17th https://youtu.be/ilReHJGhOrQ?si=hwDKdk13sa94Ofvo
Saturday, September 16th The view from the back door. Looking southeast at sunrise. South Southeast at sunrise. South Southwest at sunrise. This morning's weather. Self-portrait in Shadow No. 2 This week's cumulative rain as of September 16th.
Friday, September 15th First Light Today's weather Sunrise East Sunrise Southeast Sunrise Southwest North East West Waiting The Bus Newly green TGIF! And that's about all I can say for today. After 2 days of rain.. now and again.. The world is not out of the drought yet. But every…
Thursday, September 14th What a difference a day can make... Yesterday afternoon we had a good rain shower about the time the kids got home from school. Fall total. It probably rained. Three quarters of an inch. Today's forecast looks like it could even be wetter. Yesterday morning when I…
Wednesday, September 13th Wordless Wednesday Self-portrait in Shadow No. 1
Tuesday September 12th While it's not as cool this morning.. it is still pleasant out on the front porch. The temperature is up. Though the dew point being at 70° makes the day feel much nicer. Though I was surprised by the number of clouds and the general overcast. Look…
Monday, September 11th On the front porch this morning.. it's surprisingly cool. With a dew point below 70° and a temperature almost the same at 69°, it's the best feeling morning we've had in a very long time. Even though the bus has already gone it's still mostly dark out.…
Sunday September 10th Another interesting morning.. though the temperature is up, the humidity is down.. so in terms of how it feels it's pretty much a wash. Watching the battles unfold out my back window for the past few days has felt a lot like watching a miniaturized version of…
Saturday, September 9th These are the kind of mornings that I love to take photos of. It's cool out... Well, somewhat... The humidity is not as high as normal even though it has raised overnight and it's sprinkling now. It's late on Saturday morning. I slept in after the light…
Friday September 8th Sitting out on the front porch once again.. on what the weather prognosticators are saying "should" be the last in a long line of heat advisory days. I must admit sitting out before sunup, it isn't too unpleasant. Once again, the hummingbirds are chirping in the pre-dawn…
Thursday, September 7th According to the readings on the weather app it shouldn't feel this pleasant on the front porch. But with the fan blowing, it's almost chill. According to my phone, it's a comfortable 77°. Over the past few days we've had a massive influx of hummingbirds. It seems…
Wednesday September 6th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday September 5th Walking out of the front porch this morning before sunup I was slapped in the face by summer. If you look at the screen capture below you might notice that the feels like temperature is above 90° this morning. The humidity is up.. The dew point is…
Monday September 4th Labor Day It's not as pleasant out this morning. Radar is showing some rain around... Mostly across Galveston Bay and into Western Louisiana. We actually had a 5-minute shower Sunday afternoon. We really could use a much longer soaking rain. Most of the family was here yesterday…
Friday September 1st TGIF First Light From the back porch about an hour later... Is this morning weather going to last? The sun is up.. and we're on the front porch. And right back where we started from... And now we head into a long weekend. I may or may…
Thursday August 31st Yesterday was the first morning in a long, long time that it was actually pleasant sitting on the front porch. So much so, that even though I turned the fan on, I had to get up and turn it back off because the wind chill was actually…
Wednesday August 30th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday August 29th It does not feel as pleasant out this morning as I expected. I'm not really sure exactly what the difference is.. The humidity is reasonable.. The temperature is not bad.. Even the dew point is reasonable.. and yet sitting on the front porch with the fan on…
Monday August 28th Out on the porch this morning and while the temperature isn't cool... The dew point at 72° makes it almost pleasant. Last night at bedtime the radar image was pleasantly surprising. Quite a large portion of Southeast Texas showing rain. Not that the water flowing from the…
Friday August 25th It's the last Friday in August. And it's almost pleasant here on the front age as well as the fan is blowing. The days are definitely getting shorter. It's still dark out of a morning when I walk out. Even when the first bus comes the day…
Thursday August 24th It's just another hot and humid morning in SE Texas... Without a drop of rain in the forecast. I was sitting around today when I noticed the second airplane buzzing by over the house... And for some reason that triggered a memory from my childhood. We lived…
Wednesday August 23rd Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday August 22nd When I woke up this morning I did what I always do and glanced at my phone... This morning I was gob smacked by the temperature I saw at 5:15am. Once I was up I double checked everywhere.. and sadly all sources agreed.. The overnight low made…
Monday August 21st The only difference between this morning and every other morning since school started is the addition of clouds to the sky. Which means there's additional color in the sunrise. But trust me when I say it's hot as hell here this month. It seems like every afternoon…
Friday August 18th Well yesterday morning was definitely a one of... The pleasantly cool morning on the front porch without a fan was definitely too much to expect a repeat. Though, I do see some upper 70s for overnight lows in the upcoming forecast... But for now, the first bus…
Thursday August 17th I really wish I could say that I could get used to the way the morning feels. But sadly that's not the case.. this is a one of.. just a single instance of an actual coolish morning. The temperature outside this morning is a cool 71° -…
Wednesday August 16th Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday August 16th Once again, I find myself sitting in the heat heat and humidity of my front porch as I await the second coming of a school bus. And then, I see the weather prognosticators are teasing me with the following headlines... And the part they're not saying.. and…
Monday August 14th It's another warm and humid morning on the porches. At least the fan provides a bit of wind chill as I sit on the front porch watching for the buses. But all in all, there isn't much chill in the air in my neck of the woods...…