March 22nd, 2022
Tuesday Waiting for the storm... https://youtu.be/QTZDCmksz_s And in less than an hour... It's done!
Author: Gary Boyd
March 21st, 2022
Monday afternoon The day started out in the upper 60s... It's now in the mid '70s. It's misted rain all day long. The prognosticators are foretelling of an overnight low in the upper 50s where the rain in the forecast. Tomorrow's high should be about the same as today. But…
March 20th, 2022
Sunday afternoon It's cool and breezy out today. I'm on the back porch again with my Kindle. Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... Pray for the Ukraine... Please.
March 19th, 2022
Saturday It's a beautiful afternoon for mid March... It's warm enough that I have the ceiling fans on the porch on. Even though the day started off in the '40s and it'll be in the '40s again tomorrow morning... It's quite pleasant out today. Sitting on the back porch, and…
March 18th, 2022
Friday I'm just going to go with the images today... So, y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... With a special prayer for the people of Ukraine.
March 17th, 2022
Thursday - Saint Patrick's Day There's a slight blush of spring in the air and on the trees... Blue bonnets are blooming on the bypass underpass. A scattering of azaleas are beginning to bloom around town. The oak trees are beginning to break bud on their leaves. And even though…
March 16th, 2022
Wednesday Shelby Store, Gary Boyd 2010Searching for spring in Fayette County In rural Fayetteville, two rusty gas pumps stand like landmarks to what’s left of the old Shelby Store. Each morning, storekeeper Carolyn Bruening takes her seat behind the counter, worn smooth from decades of serving the wants and needs…
March 15th, 2022
Tuesday From the Winamp machine... The Last of the Hobo Kings Steam Train Maury died last night His wife Wanda by his side Caught the Westbound out of here Hopped the high irons to the by and by They say he jumped ten thousand trains Rode a million miles for…
March 14th, 2022
Monday - Pi Day
March 9th, 2022
Wordless Wednesday
March 5th, 2022
Saturday... https://youtu.be/LwSE3sjv0ZM The Winamp machine was playing this song last night. For some reason it just didn't sound quite right and I couldn't figure out why... I mean I knew the song... Knew it really well... But not the Jimmy Buffett version. So, I went into google mode... And the…
March 4th, 2022
Friday https://youtu.be/-HUv1oSTKzc Today, for all intents, dawned a beautiful spring morning... Birds were singing. Not much to say today... So... How about some music? https://youtu.be/ohSrY6DOA2I
March 3rd, 2022
Thursday There are high clouds this morning. And, the morning temperature is in the mid 50s... A really nice place to start out the day. Jeb Loy Nichols is playing on the Winamp machine. Ever since I first heard him on the radio back in the early 2000s I have…
March 2nd, 2022
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/3TCjwbUzle4
The 27th of February, 2022
Sunday evening Clouds finally moved out today. Though it was later than we expected... I was playing around with the panoramic mode on my phone camera in the above shots... Just in a different orientation. I started at the ground and tilted the camera / phone until I reached the…
The 26th of February, 2022
Saturday afternoon Cool with a light, misty rain falling... The day has been stuck in the low 40s and the overcast has hung on... ... And on this weekend say a special prayer for the people of the Ukraine...
The 25th of February, 2022
Friday https://youtu.be/i3XBfF6Vf-4 It's gray and cool and damp today... It was gray and cool and damp yesterday... too. It's been gray a lot... or so it seems. Even when it is anything but cool... it is still more gray than not. I was watching Austin City Limits this past week.…
The 16th of February, 2022
Wordless Wednesday
The 14th of February, 2022
Monday, Valentine's Day https://youtu.be/9kR-IBgtpX0 It dawned frosty this morning... The temperature was hovering around 33° when I walked outside. With just enough clouds to brighten the sunrise. I spent last evening watching the latest programs from our PBS station here in Houston. After catching the latest episodes of my favorite…
The 12th of February, 2022
Saturday Night Music https://youtu.be/uqheSQjmBhA The Winamp machine has hit the randomness of some really good blues guitar tonight... It's been probably two decades since I first discovered Matt Thorpe. I still enjoy listening to him make a guitar scream... During early 1999 Matt then persued a solo career spanning 8…
The 11th of February
Friday https://youtu.be/15NBBKsLzts It's the end of the week... As the sun came up a mist hugged the earth... The cool of winter hung on as the sun burned off the fog... Everyone enjoy the coming weekend... I'm gonna have another cup. Here is a shot of last nights sunset taken…
The 10th of February, 2022
Thursday It's a bit foggy out this morning. The temperature when I first walked out was 38°. It'll get up into the 70s later today... Southeast Texas weather and its best. The photos above show my neighbors new toy... Picked up an old Ford pickup truck for his young daughter.…
The 9th of February, 2022
Wordless Wednesday
The 8th of February, 2022
Tuesday https://youtu.be/Da1TdpwTBlk I walked out before sunup this morning and it was just a bit chilled on the back porch. I wasn't expecting the temperature to be as low as it was after the high of 70 degrees yesterday. But WeatherUnderground let me know it was all of 33 degrees…
The 6th of February, 2022
Sunday https://youtu.be/mVEXkLht6hQ Happy Birthday Me It's my birthday... I was listening to the Winamp machine and the song up above came on. It was released on January 1, 1987... A good long time ago in my life... It'll All Work Out A time when we only had two kids... Life…
The 5th of February, 2022
Saturday Friday night music led me to a group I fell in love with way back in the early 2000's,.. It was the Greencards. Here's the song that got me going last night... https://youtu.be/mvCdUQW7cgE Every time I here Carol Young's voice I recognize it. I first heard their sound on…
The 4th of February, 2022
Friday Baby it's cold outside... At least for the Texas Gulf Coast it's cold. Morning temperature at 8:30 a.m. was 27°. At least we don't seem to have ice or sleet or even snow. As usual, at any hint of weather... The school district here shut the schools down today.…
The 3rd of February, 2022
Thursday https://youtu.be/GOZFOxv1kP0 Good morning. The cold front has pushed off the coast, and temperatures have fallen into the upper 30s to low 40s for most of the region. Our primary concern remains the potential for rainfall to turn into wintry precipitation this evening, and during the overnight hours. Secondarily, we…
The 2nd of February, 2022
Wordless Wednesday
The 1st of February, 2022
Tuesday Happy Birthday Abby The day started out with a light misty rain. Overcast. The temperature though, was quite moderate at 63°. The photos above I took from my back porch as I was putting out cat food this morning. All told there were five or six deer running across…
