wordless wednesday
tuesday Sunrise today was impressive... Just enough clouds to give it some color... The guys over at Space City Weather her promising that this will be the end of our 90° plus daytime highs. Here's a weak cool front headed our way this week followed by a stronger one next…
monday There's a train going by as I sit on the front porch waiting for the school bus. It's so much louder now that the entirety of the construction site has been cleared of trees. 105 acres denuded. Now that the train has gone by, The sounds of construction have…
saturday Every week or so I get an email from my congresscriter... Every email has a poll at the end, This particular poll question has shown up fairly regularly. It really makes me mad every time I see it because I can't think of a single American who could answer…
friday Just another fine fall morning... That's all for me... Have a great weekend.
thursday Out on the front porch this morning waiting for the school bus. It's bright, it's cool, there's even a hummingbird at the feeder. Traffic sounds are loud. Beep beep beep of the construction critters cuts the morning air. Vehicles speed by on the road in front of the house...…
wordless wednesday
tuesday The sky was changing rapidly as the sun was rising this morning... The sweep of color moved from one side to the other in a matter of minutes. Once again the path of the sun has transited the house. Rising in the front in summer... It has now switched…
monday The pleasant fall temperatures are holding this morning. And while it isn't in the low 50's, the upper 50's are nice enough. Moisture is beginning to work it's way back into the atmosphere in the form of high lite clouds. So far October is turning out to be a…
sunday I was up early this morning... I took these shots... then I forgot to post them... Oh well...
saturday, International Coffee Day It's a pleasant 58° outside at 8:00 a.m. ... And that's all I feel the need to say today
It's Friday, the end of September. For the very first time in a long time, the temperature this morning is in the '50s. And the forecast is for a couple of more days of these sweet lows... I even have a window open letting some of the fresh air... Cool…
It's Thursday These mornings are so appreciated after our never-ending summer. Starting temperatures below seventy are what I base my definition of a pleasant day... Add in a nice northerly breeze and it couldn't get much better. The Space City Weather guys are promising more of the same for the…
Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday It's a beautiful fall morning. A pleasant 62° under faultless blue skies. Damn, it's about time... There are no fans needed on the front porch this morning. It actually feels quite nice. We're well into the second wave of hummingbirds. But I don't doubt that they will be…
It's Monday The still before the storm... Well, at least the steel before the front. It's warm out, they're reporting that it's 76° this morning. That's warm, really warm to start the day. Though the prognosticators are promising a fairly radical change overnight. Tomorrow's low is projected to be 63°.…
It's Friday As I was sitting here reading and contemplating the changing of the seasons this song came up in my rotation... https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c Ever since I discovered Eva Cassidy I have been in love with her voice. But, truth be told it's not just her voice that's so special... there…
It's Thursday The morning is quieter. Our great migration of hummingbirds has migrated. No more battles royale all day long. Even the Cardinals seem a bit bemused by the absence. The morning traffic continues to become worse in front of the house. With all of the homes being built and…
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It's Tuesday It's another late summer morning in Southeast Texas. A lite mist hugs the ground. Not a breeze is stirring... Except around the wings of the hummingbirds. And... On that note... I'll catch you on the other side.
It's Monday From a seared brown to an Irish green in less than a month. While the scattered rains have barely fallen on us The last couple of weeks, we've had enough rain this month to bring the green back to the yard... Also back for another year is the…
It's Saturday Yesterday's email brought the latest propaganda piece from my Congress-critter, as Molly liked to identify them. And Troy E. Nehls, Member of Congress for my district, as he does every week ended his MAGA approved puff piece with a survey... A bit of history here about his surveys...…
It's Tuesday https://youtu.be/riQWKn0rXr8 I find myself enjoying my musical journey more and more. Shannon McNally showed up in my rotation the other day. I only have one of her songs in my library and I didn't recall hearing it before... But something in her voice grabbed me and made me…
It's Friday I've noticed a change in the light this past week. And this morning, there's a change in the feel of the air. And the prognosticators have foretold of a low temperature tonight that actually falls into the '60s... Like almost anyone in the world with access to any…
Between 2:30pm and 3:15pm Friday 2.25" of rain fell.
Friday Finally... After weeks and weeks... We get more than a trace amount of rain. So far, coming up on noon, we're measuring just below 3/10 of an inch. And it's been slow, it's been steady, it's been just what we need... A soaking rain. I can only hope that…
Tuesday Oh my God I've missed her wit and insight every day since she has been absent from Texas. Back in the day I would print out every column and bind them into hardbound volumes that ran from birthday to birthday for the mother of a high school friend. They…
It's Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday Walking through the office this morning I spotted the Audubon calendar that came in the mail yesterday. I immediately had a memory flash. My Grandpa Sewell had one of those very large give me calendars that he got from the local grocer or the feed store hanging on…
It's Monday Well, once again, the rains that fell yesterday... Fell around us not on us. It's really becoming the story of the summer. Thunderstorms passing so close you can feel the mist in the air... But, little or no rain actually falls on our house. There was an afternoon…
It's Friday Today is the opening of GC Myers' solo show at the West End Gallery. The show is called "Chaos & Light". The title of this year’s edition of my annual solo exhibit at the West End Gallery is Chaos & Light. This will be my 21st solo outing at…
It's Thursday If it wasn't so damn hot, it would be a beautiful day out here in Southeast Texas. But, with the temperature already pushing 90, it's definitely a day for inside activities. Just like yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that... Do you notice the brown…
It's Photo Friday This week's Challenge: 'Road'. Talimena National Scenic Byway, June 2010 It was June of 2010 and I had scored some semi-decent tickets to an Eagles concert with the Dixie Chicks opening for them as an early anniversary gift for Sherry... The downside of this was the concert…
It's Thursday I was dragged reluctantly from my slumber by the distant rumblings of thunder at 5am this morning. As I lay there listening... contemplating the rarity of this sound lately... thinking I really should watch this rare event... moisture falling from the sky... RAIN. So I stumbled out of…
It's Tuesday There are clouds to the east of us... There are clouds to the west of us... But there are no clouds to the south of us, or over us... The prognosticators are foretelling of a chance of scattered showers this afternoon. Unfortunately for us, these chances of precipitation…
It's Friday It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.-Claude Monet I haven't done a Photo Friday Challenge in years. This weeks Challenge is "Seashore". So I've dug into my archives for…
It's Thursday There's a meme that's been going around for what seems like forever... Throwback Thursday. I haven't played it, but the outdoor temperature has be wishing for a cooler memory. Here are some of my shots from trips to the mountains... all of which were cooler than here and…
And, it's Friday Rain, rain everywhere... Just not here. More often than not, the radar image above is the way the rain pattern around here looks. Rain will move right up to the edge of my hometown and stop falling. I can watch it happen in real time. It's almost…
It's Thursday There is a promise of rain today, both in the forecast and on the horizon. At some point that promise reaches almost 100%. After teases over the last 3 days, we could really use that promise being fulfilled. The grass and the trees have begun showing more brown…
It's Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday Today I got out of bed early and walked out on the porch... Early. The sun hadn't passed the horizon. As a matter of fact, the eastern sky was just a pink glow. Last night, just about bedtime, a small thunderstorm blew over us. It didn't last all…
It's Monday The prognosticators are giving us an optimistic foretelling of moisture falling from the heavens... The rain chances are rising. As you can see, the skies to the east are looking a bit unsettled this morning. The foretelling is of early afternoon thunderstorms scattered around the area. Looking at…
It's Sunday Mary Shelly Once a week I receive an email from Maria Popova that she calls The Marginalian. Maria's essays are always an interesting hyperlinked brain teasing, twisting through time tying together of thoughts and ideas. This weeks essay on Mary Shelly left me with a profound respect for…
It's Saturday To hell with MAGA... I just want America to be America Again! And a bunch of angry old conservatives don't seem to care about what I want... Or even what a majority of my fellow citizens want America to represent. When precedent no longer matters, what makes them…
It's Friday The weekend forecast from Space City Weather... Today through SundayHot, hot, hot. Look for temperatures near 100° or hotter each afternoon with just the slightest chance for a shower or storm. Morning lows should be in the 70s inland and 80s near the bays and Gulf and perhaps…
It's Thursday Today I just visited summer. I walked out our front door... I looked left and I looked right... Then I returned into the house of perpetual spring. With summer officially here this week, I am now entering my reverse hibernation. I've never really hidden from the cold, but…
Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday There are thunderstorms rolling around, pretty much isolated just over me. Then though the radar map shows there is lightning and thunder off to my east, I'm not hearing it right here. But the clouds are blocking the sun and making it just a bit more pleasant on…
It's Monday It was too warm, too humid, too still... Visiting the back porch this morning was a thing to do, but not a thing to drag out or to enjoy. The temperature at 78°, when added to the 93% humidity just doesn't invite you to sit and visit. So…
Dad was always full of stories. Any trip into his old home grounds of Wharton County would lead to side trips looking for this home place or that home place while he would tell about his family.
It's Friday It's another warm morning on the front porch. The temperature is 78° and the humidity is at 91%. So as I sit here the fan in the chair is blowing at medium. I'm sure not thrilled by the number of large trucks that feel like they have the…
It's Thursday Looking to the east there's a haze in the air. That's the humidity back this morning. According to the weather app, it's at 96%. Though happily, the temperature is only at 77°. After the last week, that's pretty amazing. There are definitely some happy crickets in the grass…
It's Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday There are heavy clouds to the east this morning. I'm sure they won't last. I'm sure they're not bringing any rain. I've been trying to post to my site since shortly after 8:00 a.m. . It's now 11:30 a.m. and due to intermittent outages with my web server,…
It's Monday It's a busy day today. I'm just now starting my first cup of muses... And I'm on the road soon. I have to have lab work done before my physical on Wednesday afternoon. And I have an appointment with my surgeon to follow-up on my surgery. So not…
It's Sunday And, it's still hot out. It looks like it's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future. So I'll be spending most of my time in the indoor environment in comfort...
It's Friday Hello... So says my granddaughters chalk art on the back porch when I walked out. She's been busy out there covering quite a bit of the porch with her chalk art. Though when I walked out I wasn't paying much attention to the ground beneath my feet. I…
It's Thursday I'm back out on the front porch. And really it's because on bright sunny mornings there's nothing like filling your viewscape with shade. So, with the temperature already at 79° and the humidity hovering way too high, I'll sit here and enjoy the fan blowing hard to put…
Wordless Wednesday
It's Tuesday Even though the sun's just up, the thermometer is already reading 79°. So, this muse will be short... I hear a red tail hawk calling in the edge of the woods. Other than that, it's pretty quiet out. Yes there are the normal Cardinals singing. And there's a…
Monday It's definitely summer. We're starting out the day at 76°. And the crickets and the cicadas are making sure that quietness doesn't intrude upon our morning. I pulled up the WordPress app this morning and it informed me that this is my 15th anniversary on WordPress. That original WordPress…
Saturday Yesterday afternoon late I took a walk around my backyard. When I got to the back corner I decided to give you a view from the opposite point of view of my normal CoffeeMuses. So, The following images are what I saw. I hope you enjoy the change of…
Friday It's bright out this morning. The sun is shining on a freshly washed world. The showers that were predicted for yesterday evening actually showed up. They weren't large, the duration of the rain was fairly short, but, while it lasted it was fairly heavy. Though the sound and light…
Thursday I am out on the front porch this morning watching the world go by as the sun gets higher in the sky. It's a bit cooler out today, 74° and it feels a bit less humid. There's a red bird in the chaste tree. Now she's moved to the…
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Tuesday It's a bit sticky out this morning. 79° and still. I'm on the front porch, and the traffic is lighter than I expected for a work day even though school is out. I have the floor fan blowing to provide a little bit of air movement. But, even with…
Monday, Memorial Day For all intents and purposes, this is the first day of my summer. No more alarms getting me up before the sun. For that matter no more alarms for school bus routes and waking the kids. It's just me and my internal clock deciding when to get…
Friday I find myself still sitting on the front porch after the buses have run. This will be my last morning bus run till fall. Today ends another school year, and the grandkids will be home for the summer. This morning has been a morning of train whistles, mockingbird songs…
Thursday It's a gorgeous, almost perfect, spring-like morning. The temperature is 62°. The skies are cloudless and blue. The birds are singing. And the sun is rising. It only takes a very little effort to tune out the outside world on a morning like today. But it does take effort.…
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Tuesday It's overcast... Again. And though the temperature is about the same as yesterday, it doesn't have the feel of coolness that was in the air yesterday. Though, I must admit there is a sweet smell in the air... Probably from the mimosa that's blooming just off the porch. The…
Monday It's overcast this morning. I'm pleasantly cool on the front porch with just a bit of humidity in the air from the rain yesterday morning. Once again the morning is filled with the call of the construction wildlife. A piercing beep, beep, beep, beep as the vehicle's on the…
Saturday Jeep in field - 2007 Walkin' the dogs - 2010 Another walk in the woods - 2010 Watching the construction around the corner I was struck when this song by the Eagles came up in my que... The photos above are all of the woods and fields that no…
Friday Waiting for the bus before 7:00 a.m., and it's already very warm out. The temperature for the day is 79°. And the sun is just starting to shine through the trees. Hopefully, the rain the prognosticators are fortelling of will get here next week. We really, really could use…
Thursday Happy birthday sis... Sitting on the front porch, between buses, I am still not used to the view that takes me all the way to the traffic on the bypass. The land clearing has now reached the property lines at the back of the houses and businesses across the…
Wordless Wednesday Mimosa Chaste Tree Chaste Tree
Tuesday It was cooler than expected this morning out on the front porch. And there was a bit of a fog hanging low in the open spaces... Just not under the tree canopy. I've been thinking a lot these last few days about my history with this blog... journal... morning…
Thursday We lucked into one of the cooler mornings of the summer season. The temperature this morning at the time of the first bus is 65°. The sun is beginning to light the trees. The sound of the day is the song of the cardinal. One of the most common…
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday In my own mind I like to break summer in Houston into four phases. We can do this in Houston because “summer” season lasts so long, typically about five months. This is contrast to meteorological summer, which runs from June through August, and “solstice” summer, which runs from June…
Monday It's a breezy, mockingbird morning. A little two-seater sports car just tried to hit 65 mph down my little two lane road. It's already warm out. My phone says it's 79° already... And truthfully, it feels at least that warm. I'm sitting on the front porch once more, waiting…
Friday There is a bit of ground fog this morning. We had a great light show last night as the front moved through. It was one of the better thunder and lightning events of the year. And... I woke up to an empty house this morning. The daughter and grandkids…
Thursday, Cinco de Mayo When I walked out with my granddaughter this morning I did something I haven't done before... I pulled up the podcast app on my phone. The first thing I listened to was Birdnote, a short little daily podcast about birds. By the time I walked out…
Monday Both kids are on the buses. The light out hasn't changed all morning. The heavy overcast is keeping it gloomy. And on this Monday morning, I don't have much to say... so I won't say much at all. Everyone have a great day, I'll catch you on the other…
Friday Another day of staying off my feet as much as possible. But another day of reading and listening to music. I'm sitting on the front porch. Waiting for school bus number two, while watching an idiot in a van pass another van on our too narrow little road. It's…
Thursday I'm sitting on the front porch this morning. The second bus is just picked up a grandkid. Birds are singing. And the air is still spring-like for a bit... I saw that the Space City Weather was saying yesterday that this may be the last of our spring-like weather.…
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Tuesday That's overcast and cool this morning. A slight breeze is blowing... I don't have much to say this morning so I won't say anything else... Have a great day and I'll catch you on the other side.
Monday I'm sitting on the front porch today, watching the kids get on the bus. It's already starting to get warmer. But, the world is green and filled with bird song. According to the prognosticators, you should see some clouds and precipitation sometime later today. We actually had a shower…