Snowmagedon…It Didn’t.

The sun has risen on more frost covered morns than I can ever recall. But by mid-day the temperatures will be pushing into the mid 60’s…even over 70 degrees. Then after sundown the temperatures fall again into the mid to low 30’s…Only to repeat the roller-coaster all over again the next day.

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It’s A New Week And I Am Wondering Where The Birds Went…

Blue jays and robins are a sign of winter in my neck of the woods. Over the weekend a notion of mine, one that has been percolating around in this

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The Weather Keeps Changing…

Sitting behind my chair, at the back door, are two pairs of my shoes…I put on one or the other whenever I go outside. The remarkable thing about these two

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A Frosty Winter Solstice

The sun came up this morning over a frosty backyard. Frost two days in a row…Pretty unprecedented for this neck of the woods. It’s been a different sort of “winter”

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Snow in Houston…But None On The Ground Here.

Houston Snow…Stayed north of us. Yesterday’s weather event was a washout here at our place. As nice as it was to watch the heavy flurries fall off and on all

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It Seems Autumn Just Started…

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”.

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Grandfatherly Duties

I’ve been falling down on my duties as a grandfather this past month. So to play catch up here are two slideshows…First of #2 grandson’s first birthday… Second, of #1

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