And winter won’t be visiting until tomorrow… December 28, 2025 You would think that after 71 winters in this neck of the woods I’d be used to the idiosyncrasies of our climate… But really let’s…

A funny thing happened on Christmas day… My youngest daughter was siting in the chair next to mine musing about whether it was too late to get a photo of my new grandson with Santa….

It’s been eight days since I snapped the last image. It’s the Saturday before Christmas. December 20, 2025 We are sending out fewer and fewer Christmas Cards these days. With the Christmas stamps I purchased…

When the lights went out just before sunrise this morning I was greeted with this “light” brightening my dark house. December 16, 2025 Luckily, the lights are back on…

The coldest morning this season. December 15, 2025

December 14, 2025

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December 12, 2025 December 6, 2025 Growing up in SE Texas, we didn’t get the Fall color show that most of the country enjoys. About the only Fall color I can remember from those days…

Eight Years In My Backyard I’ve been looking out my back window this past week and thinking fall was running just a bit behind. And it seemed funny as I have been listening to the…

It’s a week before Thanksgiving and the sight I saw walking into the local HEB was a strange overlapping of two seasons… Summer watermelon and Winter poinsettias.

October 11th 2025 It’s almost a fall-like morning. And it says a lot, that for us here in Southeast Texas, a fall like morning has a temperature of 75°. Needless to say, the ceiling fans…

https://youtu.be/YVhn1edWaDA?si=HfJvT2xOEzdYtJ6O There’s something happening hereWhat it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man with a gun over thereA-telling me I got to bewareI think it’s time we stopChildren, what’s that sound?Everybody look what’s going downThere’s battle…

The prognosticators are hinting at cooler mornings coming… I can hardly wait. But, today definitely isn’t one of them…

I’m still in the world. I am beginning to drag myself out of my summer’s hibernation as the mornings start to almost cool.

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The sun is below the horizon, the cicadas are are humming, hamburgers are sizzling on the grill… And it’s very warm out. The temperature right now is 82°. And just like that, I have broken…

Spring is back…

The fog really emphasized the damage my hundred year old trees ended up with from Beryl last summer. The past two decades have seen the once awesome canopy over my front yard shredded. From Ike…

It’s funny… When the morning temperature is warmer than yesterday at this time but the forecast is calling for the day to be cooler…

Here I sit, on my front porch, waiting for the first bus, And I find myself thinking this would be the perfect morning,,, for a June or July! But here we are in the first…

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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°.

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

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…

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

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……

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.

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…

Words cannot express a more divergent forecast of extremes.

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…

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…

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…

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…

And this is why we call it fall.

At least a SE Texas white Christmas…

December 16, 2024

As the sun sets in the too warm December evening…

Between the winds and full color.

Fall color will be gone before it really arrived.

At least it’s started…

On a cool fall morning.