The Trail Since 2006
It began with a spark of inspiration from a few kindred spirits scattered along the Appalachian ridges, mostly in North Carolina and Virginia. Back then, we were virtual friends who—for the most part—never shared a physical porch, but we built a digital one together. Some were writers, some were poets, and some were photographers, each of us finding our way through those early “virtual woods” on the internets.
What follows is a collection of my latest musings (and perhaps a bit of blathering), a trail of thoughts that winds all the way back to those first steps in 2006.
Or just meander through my past muses… Just hope the coffee isn’t stale!
February 24th, Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
February 23rd, Tuesday
Chee… I got a little busy this morning and forgot to post this. Not that I had a lot to say. Spent most of the day reading. Doing chores. Just another Tuesday in paradise… oops…
February 22nd, Monday
From the deep freeze of winter, to pleasant mornings of spring, the temperature this morning is 55°. The forecast high for today is 71°. That means by early afternoon the temperature on my back porch…
February 21st, Sunday
Winter has decided to move back north and let some spring in the air… The temperature this morning is 56°. It should be 70° on the back porch by the afternoon. That’s pretty much what…
February 20th, Saturday
It’s frosty out this morning. A cool 28°. A beautiful cloudless winter morning. The yard is probably the brownest I can recall seeing in a couple of decades. I can’t recall this many consecutive days…
February 19th, Friday
It’s 10:00 a.m. and 38° outside. The one result surviving the rolling blackouts is that we’re sleeping later each morning. I can’t go on for long, school will start again on Monday. But even going…
February 18th, Thursday
Well it’s late. Afternoon actually. Our power came back on at 10:00 p.m. on the money. And surprisingly, it stayed on. After making the rounds of the house and making sure everything was copacetic, I…
February 17th, Wednesday
Working on our third day of rolling blackouts. I don’t think they figured out how to make the blackouts roll though. We’ve had two periods of power each 30 minutes long one on Monday, one…
Electricity and the grid
It seems very strange, to me anyway, that in the year 2021 power generating companies in the state of Texas can’t seem to figure out how to run as the temperature approaches zero. Other states,…
February 16th, Tuesday
I woke up this morning due to the chill in the air in the house. Overnight, the house is temperature had dropped to 58°. Not bad, compared to some of my neighbors, one of whom…
Getting ready for a cold, cold night…
It’s still 23° outside. The low tonight is supposed to be 12°. Our electricity has been out all day. We don’t expect it to be back on anytime soon. Guess I’ll have to throw another…
February 15th, Monday
It’s 18° outside, a wintry mix off and on overnight. And that’s what it looks like out the front window by the door. The power went off about 2:30. About 6:00 it came on again,…
February 14th, Sunday
Valentine’s Day It’s chilly outside, and only going to get colder. We’re looking at some kind of frozen precipitation overnight. Weather underground just say it’ll be snow in the morning. We’ll just have to wait…
February 13th, Saturday
It’s 36° and chilly with a wind chill in the mid twenties. The countdown is on for the coming winter storm. Everyday that goes by, the forecast below for Monday night drops a little lower….
February 12th, Friday
Baby it’s cold outside… 37° at 7:30 a.m., there’s a steady wind blowing, and a lot of moisture in the air. All day yesterday, where the forecast called for rising temperatures, that kept falling. Forecasted…
February 11th, Thursday
There was a low rumble of thunder outside as my alarm went off this morning. by the time the grandkids were up and eating breakfast rain was falling. It’s a cool, wet, winter’s day, heading…
February 10th, Wordless Wednesday
February 9th, Tuesday
Dense fog this morning has turned the world into mostly shades of gray. And with a moderate 63° outside air temperature, it’s really hard to anticipate the low 30s the prognosticators are foretelling for the…
Birthday Roadtrip
Well I made it out for an abbreviated road trip today. Swung through the Brazoria Wildlife Refuge where it was the emptiest of bird life I have ever seen it. Then I had it on…
February 8th, Monday
It’s another spring like morning in the middle of winter. It’s already pushing 60°. It looks like we have three maybe four days of this before went to returns. I think I feel the need…
February 7th, Sunday
Why is it that when it looks like winter it feels like spring, and when it looks like spring it feels like winter. The conundrum of Texas gulf coast weather… It’s bright and sunny out…
February the 5th, Friday
It’s not very cool out, just 56°. But it’s quite windy, and misting a bit of rain. The wind chimes on the front porch have been making a racket all morning long. The prognosticators have…
February 4th, Thursday
It’s definitely not chilly today. The temperature this morning before sunup was 64°. Clouds are moving back in from the gulf. The prognosticators are foretellingof a good chance of rain today and tonight… We’ll have…
Sun Setting
February 3rd, Wordless Wednesday
February 2nd, Tuesday
It was a chill 40° this morning, with a bit of do on the car and the grass. And, a very, very beautiful sunrise. The grandkids are on the buses, the first load of laundry…
February 1st, Monday
Happy Birthday Abby It’s chilly this morning, and there’s a bit of a breeze blowing, but it’ll warm up some by afternoon. Sitting at the bus stop, the temperature on the car dashboard is 44°….
Blue Skies
And once again… Just because I can and I’m obsessed with her voice…… https://youtu.be/axfNDZXkUOY
31st of January, Sunday
It’s very bright out today. A cloudless blue sky. But still, it feels like spring, in the middle of winter. The weather app says it’s 57° out. While on the back porch, the sun has…
30th of January, Saturday
It really looks like winter out this morning, but it feels like spring. It’s 66°, heading for the mid-70s. There’s a 40% chance of rain according to the diagnosticators. Once again I slept in way…
29th of January, Friday
Walking out this morning to sit with the grandkids waiting for the school bus, the moon was impressive as it set to the west. Last evening, after watching the fox eat on the back porch,…
Moon and clouds
This one’s for you Linda.
28th of January, Thursday
It’s nippy outside this morning, 42°. All of the color in the sunrise is to the north, so my pictures don’t show it. There are some individual crows out and about this morning, cawing as…
27th of January, Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
26th of January, Tuesday
Woke up this morning to find we are stuck between too cold fronts. The temperature is 61°. The skies are still cloudy and gray. At some point this month, I’d like to see some sunshine….
25th of January, Monday
Another misty, overcast, warm spring like day. The birds are happy with the weather being so warm, it even sounds like spring. I can hear the chickens, or the roosters, cooing in their cages around…
24th of January, Sunday
This string of hazy, foggy, overcast and rainy days just doesn’t end. At least the spring like temperatures have stuck around with the clouds. I will admit that it does make for nice sleeping in…
22nd of January, Friday
Gloomy, overcast, wet days keep coming. The dead of winter, the middle of January, and yet the temperature outside would make for a nice spring morning. It’s already pushing 70°. Not what most people would…
21st of January, Thursday
Yesterday’s fog, that lingered all day, has carried over into the new morning. And it is a new morning, a morning for America, a morning for democracy once again. This blanket of fog, hanging low,…
20th of January, Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
19th of January, Tuesday
It’s warmish but blustery. Birds are singing. Chickens are doing whatever it is chickens do when they talk to each other. There’s a bright orange glow to the east as the sun lights the bottoms…
18th of January, Monday
Martin Luther King Day No school today, so I slept in. The sun is up, it’s bright outside, and the temperatures not as cool as yesterday. The prognosticators are promising a series of days that…
17th of January, Sunday
Slept in this morning. So it’s 48°, not too cold. Once again, no clouds. Our fox came by again last night. I guess it’s a good thing he was out that first morning… Otherwise I…
16th of January, Saturday
It’s 36° on the back porch this morning. But it’s sunny and bright and it’ll hit 60° before it starts back down. There’s not a cloud in the sky and the sun is brighter than…
15th of January, Friday
It’s still cold out this morning, 38°, when I went to the bus stop this morning. The sky is clear. Flocks of birds are flying from tree to tree. Their noisy as they fly. I’ve…
14th of January, Thursday
I glanced out the back window this morning, and we had a visitor. There was a small fox licking up bird seed off the porch. I’ve caught glimpses of them before but never so out…
13th of January, Wednesday
It’s another colder than normal, for Southeast Texas, morning in January. Once again the windshield wipers scraped ice this morning. It wasn’t as thick or as full as yesterday, but, there was some ice on…
12th of January, Tuesday
It’s a chill 30° this morning out in the yard. Frost on the grass. Birds on the feeder. Birds on the wing from tree to tree. Cardinals singing the sun up. Took quite a few…
11th of January, Monday
We just missed a winter wonderland yesterday. As I watched the weather unfold yesterday across the state of Texas I noticed the radar was showing freezing precipitation, snow, just to the north of us in…
10th of January, Sunday
It’s chilly outside today. And and blustery, the wind is blowing, rain is falling. We’re probably at about the warmest it’s going to be today as the cold front comes barreling in from New Mexico….
