Shortly after first light, it’s a different story from yesterday. I would have said it was fogless, but in the last five minutes the ground fog has seemed to rise up from the grass like…

Walking out 15 minutes before first light to just a glow in the east. It’s cooler this morning, but still not below 70 degrees. And, I can see the humidity, a layer of wafting fog……

When I first walked out this morning the upper seventies temperature and the humidity hit me in the face. Such a very different way to start the week than the way we ended the last…

I had to open the umbrella again this morning… Clear skys, bright sunshine, slightly foggy air made it unbearably, glaringly brite. Opening the umbrella I woke a anole that had taken refuge inside the closed…

Not much to say this morning. I overslept. The cool front has become not so cool. I was able to snap the above shots before heading in to throw together a quickie breakfast. As I…

There was no sunrise this morning. A cool blustery darkness greeted my appearance on the back porch. It was so dark for so long I had trouble sipping from my insulated travel mug. I couldn’t…

Walking out before “first light” in the morning, the sliver of a moon hangs like a stylized bowl just a bit above the horizon. Once the sky lightens enough to photograph though, that bare sliver…

This is a nice morning. Two flights of whistling ducks flew over. At least three dozen birds or more. The sky is colorful. A mockingbird is starting to sing early. Well I made it to…

A school day, laundry day, early voting day… I’ll be busy today. Since it is a school day, I’m on the back porch before the eastern horizon began to color. It’s cool, but it’s not…

Fog. The weather prognosticators say it’s a dense fog. Out here on the back porch it’s as dense as I’ve seen this fall… but not really all that dense. Just another fall sunrise of cool…

We’re in a slow motion countdown to a momentous change in the life of America. Either American norms will win out, or by hook or crook, the most unprepared man ever to be handed the…

Ahhhhhh, sleeping in on a Saturday. Yesterday’s windy, rainy weather has moved on to the northeast. Delta has churned her/his way onshore and into the interior were it’s still spinning and looking very much like…

Another blustery near miss morning. Hurricane Delta is about 180 miles south-southeast of Galveston. This morning’s winds are blowing almost east to west at the moment. A few weeks ago the morning temperature would have…

I slept a bit late this morning since my daughter is home to start her kids off with school. Stepping out on the porch I was greeted with overcast skies. Looking at the radar I…

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Fall Morning Redux The whistling ducks flying over each morning keep growing in number… even as they loose all coherence as a flight. Flying over this morning I was reminded of watching a mob move…

Another fall morning on the back porch that luckily actually feels like fall. Whispy clouds hide in the first light color. The sunrise should make them pop. The stars are fading rapidly in the lightening…

In order to enjoy this beautiful fall morning on the back porch I had to break out the big umbrella. The stand has managed to get itself broken, but that’s ok, it works great laid…

Saturday morning… an hour and a half of extra sleep… a cool fall morning. Quiet, the only sounds are traffic roar from the bypass… louder on this side of the house. Well… karma seems to…

7:35 am Full Moon Setting 7:36 am Sun Under Horizon Walking out to last night’s full moon settling towards the western horizon as the sun rises to the east… nice. This is what the sunrise…

It looks like another cool, cloudless morning. The eastern glow has gone from pink to yellowish. The most prominent sound is of tires on concrete coming from the bypass. Though, the mockingbird is doing it’s…

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6:45 am The first real autumn morning.  No ceiling fans required. The prognosticators promised a low in the 50’s and they were blessed in their foretelling. The flock of whistling ducks grows larger by the…

It’s a warm and muggy pre-cold front start to the day. The first front is around Waco heading our way. There are enough clouds out over Galveston Bay to make the sunrise interesting even if…

The sun rose over an hour ago. It’s warmer and there’s enough humidity to fog my glasses just a bit as I walked out. I had to increase the speed of the ceiling fans back…

I’m on the front porch this morning. Another below seventy degree morning. The crows are congregating, not quite a murder yet, but gathering… playing at follow the leader. Big black velvety birds with a big,…

It really feels of fall this morning. Sixty-six wonderful degrees. What I am assuming is a clear sky… if there are clouds they aren’t evident yet. A color on the eastern horizon even before first…

Sunrise facing southeast. The temperature outside this morning is delightful. A couple of degrees below that magical 70 degrees Fahrenheit on the thermometer. And after days and days of winds from Beta, it’s still this…

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I walked out this morning at sunrise to a back porch that was wet. Given the rainfall of the past day… not surprising. But also wet was my rocking chair. So I grabbed my shots…

According to the almanac it’s first light right now… but Tropical Storm Beta is putting a lie to that. The only light in the sky is the reflection of civilization on the underside of the…

It’s a cool, breezy morning. Our first fall-like morning of the late, almost over summer season. But, don’t worry, the heat and humidity will be back… we’re not done with summer here on the Texas…

Sometimes my morning coffee muses hits a snag… this morning it brought about coffee muses man… Coffee Muses Man Kinda reminds me of the cartoon character from the 1970’s. I finally remembered the character after…

This was the sky just minutes after I heard the news that RBG had passed. May she rest in peace. Now we get to see the full nature of what today’s Republicans are in their…

The silence thirty minutes before sunrise is deafening. The overcast sky just barely lighter than the shadowy blackness of the trees. Though there is enough of a glow to the sky to make the ground…

Yesterday’s sequence of photos inspired me to do it again once I saw the morning sky… First Light – Dawn The first shot was at Dawn… first light in the sky. The noun dawn refers…

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It’s not cool, but it’s not that warm either. Pairs of crows keep flying over heading south… raising a ruckus as only crows can. The day gradually lightening as the sun approaches the horizon. The…

It’s a strange morning, no color in the east… what color there is is in the west as the sun rises. In the east it’s bands of clouds flowing across the sky from north to…

The sun is well up. Birds are singing. The hummingbird wars continue. The coolness of yesterday morning is fading into memory like a barely remembered dream. The promised rains keep teasing us on an almost…

I love weekends. Before covid, I slept in most days… even through the summer I didn’t have to get up early. Now that school has started, and virtual school does keep a school schedule, I’m…

There’s a difference in the feel of the air this morning. For one thing it’s cooler. For another, the clouds are drifting south instead of the more normal northerly direction. I don’t know that the…

Once again we are being promised a fifty percent chance of rain. The prognosticators are also foretelling of highs next week in the upper eighties… of course, that foretelling comes with a good chance of…

Sunrise is really fleeting. And the glow from the rising sun can begin, become, hit wow and wind down in the blink of the eyes… And all the while hummingbirds swarm the feeders. There always…

I awoke to the distant rumble of thunder. I walked out on the back porch to lightening and more thunder and a darker than normal pre-sunrise backyard. The radar tells the story. The only sound…

The temperature is down a bit… so is the humidity… a bit. Light clouds are scattered across the sky. It’s late, so the sun beats down unmercifully. A red-tailed hawk just flew screaming down the…

Happy Birthday Cameron. Number two grandson. I have to get ready for a small family gathering today. A combined Birthday party and Labor Day barbecue. Social distancing will be practised, hands will be sanitized, masks…

As the sun touches the horizon, periods of lite rain are falling. Rumbles of thunder roll across the landscape. Dark angry clouds move slowly as the birds sing and the hummingbirds buzz back and forth…

Wow, the temperature this morning has dropped into the seventies… after the past week it almost feels cool. There was some rain overnight and the sunrise was colorful with the sun hitting the clouds before…