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…
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…
Wordless Wednesday
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.…
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…
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
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…
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.
Friday Another overcast day in southeast Texas. It's already 74°. Headed up to 83 today... The forecast says it's only supposed to be partly cloudy today. I'm sure the sun will come out sometime. But with the temperatures being where they are, I'm in no hurry to see the sun.…
Thursday Back home after a week and a day in the hospital. I was actually out of it for a little longer than that, but most of my issues are behind me now. I'll let it go at that... I almost missed the last of the greening out of my…
Tuesday The temperature outside this morning is 69°. The sky is overcast. A slight breeze is blowing.
Thursday It's another cool morning. With totally clear skies, a moon hanging above the pines... Maybe I should say half a moon. According to the wunderground, temperatures in the lower 40s... Windy.com though is calling it the low 50s. After visiting the outside, I think I agree with the wunderground...…
Tuesday Waiting for the storm... https://youtu.be/QTZDCmksz_s And in less than an hour... It's done!
Monday afternoon The day started out in the upper 60s... It's now in the mid '70s. It's misted rain all day long. The prognosticators are foretelling of an overnight low in the upper 50s where the rain in the forecast. Tomorrow's high should be about the same as today. But…
Sunday afternoon It's cool and breezy out today. I'm on the back porch again with my Kindle. Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... Pray for the Ukraine... Please.
Saturday It's a beautiful afternoon for mid March... It's warm enough that I have the ceiling fans on the porch on. Even though the day started off in the '40s and it'll be in the '40s again tomorrow morning... It's quite pleasant out today. Sitting on the back porch, and…
Friday I'm just going to go with the images today... So, y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... With a special prayer for the people of Ukraine.
Thursday - Saint Patrick's Day There's a slight blush of spring in the air and on the trees... Blue bonnets are blooming on the bypass underpass. A scattering of azaleas are beginning to bloom around town. The oak trees are beginning to break bud on their leaves. And even though…
Monday - Pi Day
Thursday There are high clouds this morning. And, the morning temperature is in the mid 50s... A really nice place to start out the day. Jeb Loy Nichols is playing on the Winamp machine. Ever since I first heard him on the radio back in the early 2000s I have…
Saturday afternoon Cool with a light, misty rain falling... The day has been stuck in the low 40s and the overcast has hung on... ... And on this weekend say a special prayer for the people of the Ukraine...
Tuesday Happy Birthday Abby The day started out with a light misty rain. Overcast. The temperature though, was quite moderate at 63°. The photos above I took from my back porch as I was putting out cat food this morning. All told there were five or six deer running across…
Thursday https://youtu.be/xtHVLR8JzeQ IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY It's a thing of bliss, Like a morning kiss; When the sun says hello to my heart. Takes me by the hand. And I understand, That the world is God's own work of art. ~Robert Nehls~ This morning dawned to a clearing sky. At…
Monday “Only a select few are able to see the true beauty that lies behind what just might seem like a rainy day or a grey sky.” ~Jessica M. Laar~ It's overcast today. The temperature is a mild 50°. There's a misty rain falling. Even though these overcast days are…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/M8wuTlvw-5E On this morning of a more moderate temperature, clouds are again part of the day's equation. Before dawn the full-ish moon was backlighting a generous scattering of cotton ball like clouds. The really nice thing about the clouds... they temper the over bright light flooding in thru the…
Monday https://youtu.be/qBb_XFutqjo Think of that surge of joy we feel, Upon seeing the magnificence Of which the sky is capable, As a sort of call and response: An echo and reminder Of the magnificent possibilities within us, Waiting to bloom forth and be seen. ~Diane Walker~ Overnight the weather gods…
Friday https://youtu.be/7GSQKo-HTKU This morning dawned clear and cool... again. The day is sunny and destined to rise into the mid 70's. Just another ride on the rollercoaster that is SE Texas weather. Tomorrow's high is forecast to be 60 degrees at 5am... From there on the prognosticators are foretelling of…
Thursday https://youtu.be/AEmrTMiWfPA I live in my own mind Ain't nothin but a good time No rain just the sunshine Out here in my own mind I live where I can breathe Ain't nothin but a cool breeze Nobody that it won't please Out here where I can breathe This morning…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/0VUThB3YTXA It's quite chill out this morning. Not Minnesota cold, just Texas chill. It goes well with the chili and beans I put together for supper last night. Leftovers will be had for lunch. The sunrise this morning was one of the most colorful that I've seen in a…
Monday https://youtu.be/TogpMApAscE Once again from summer to not... What a way to run a climate! This morning as the sun comes up the temperature is still dropping... so much so, that the sun is well up before the overnight low is reached. The wind out of the north has a…
Friday https://youtu.be/-DpqI0wuFQU For once it actually feels like it looks outside. The temperature is down around 40 degrees, the sky is totally overcast, and the wind chimes are singing a blustery song. It's a morning to curl up with a streaming fire on the television for virtual warmth... While native…
Thursday - Insurrection Day - 1st Anniversary https://youtu.be/3wNEMKjwftU It's another warm and foggy "winter" morning... I wandered out while the video was rendering and uploading and met my new neighbor. He seems like a nice enough guy. He was out trying to mow a break around his section of woods.…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/HAm-wSQCuBw https://youtu.be/9RYy_8u4blk
Tuesday https://youtu.be/ccAEcr-bx28 I've gotten out of the habit of putting these posts out in the ether... But, today the kids are back in school, the house is empty, and Eric Clapton is playing on the computer... Also, finally the never-ending summerlike weather has broken for a few days. We even…
Where, Oh Where Is Winter? https://youtu.be/lv5AiHa5bZM This week has been very wintery looking at least... Though, truth be told, it hasn't felt at all seasonable. Overcast skies... Winds... But, temperatures keep topping out in the 70's and 80's... Even today. with a weather change in the forecast, most of the…
It's A Misty, Rainy Monday https://youtu.be/-V916SIXYmc A pre-dawn rain shower started the day... Warmer than normal... The overnight low never reached 70... I've been battling squirrels all weekend... I can't keep them off of my birdfeeders... over and over I've had to chase them off. It seems this years crop…
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Foggy Thursday https://youtu.be/Q7bqCR_QLZQ The sliver of a moon that showed thru the fog at 6am left little doubt that the morning was going to start with more than a bit of haze... The early light, before the disc of the sun broke the tree line, had a vague tint of…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/Mb-zNwaEx0U
Monday Still lacking inspiration... My voice is hiding from my spirit here lately.... But... Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... Catch y'all down the road...
Friday
Tuesday https://youtu.be/0_dj5T4yoGk 43 years ago this morning, my wife and I stood in front of a justice of the peace and said our vows. 43 years, almost twice as long as it took me to get to that point... Happy Anniversary Dear. May the next 43 be just as fun.…
Sunday https://youtu.be/x59aWwYSGK0 A beautiful, foggy start to Sunday morning. Cool, below 50 degrees. Clear skies... Enjoy your day... Catch y'all down the road...
Friday https://youtu.be/-vcrzAwBTkU It's a beautiful fall day... And I don't have a thing to say... So, y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our dysfunctional nation and the world... Catch y'all down the road...
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/jnWIkS9KGQ4
Monday https://youtu.be/vGaImjQbwq4 October is over... November is here, Halloween decorations are lined up to be put away for another year. Thanksgiving decorations will be going out... Soon to be replaced by Christmas décor... The weather seems to finally be into fall mode. Cool nighttime lows followed by unfortunately warmer than…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/bJdGtOeuWzg It looks like this return to summer is almost over. Tomorrow we have a front moving through... Rain, wind, and cooling temperatures... Thursday is forecast to be cool and breezy. I doubt I will have many posts this week, as my wife is off work. That being the…
Friday https://youtu.be/XzkC5-cBn8M Another foggy start to a warmish day. Pretty much a repeat of yesterday. Thinking back over the past 10 months, I find I don't recall all that many foggy mornings. At least not heavy fog... For some reason, that feels strange to me. This isn't a scientific observation...…
Monday https://youtu.be/gYjJInMyrPI Fall has truly and finally arrived. Though it will come and go for the next few weeks, temperatures rising and falling, the season has turned. We've had two mornings when the low temperature was right at 50°. And it's been beautiful. The yard crew got an early start…
Thursday https://youtu.be/sYvIjRDvqCQ Busy today so all I have is the video... Have a great day!
Tuesday https://youtu.be/PkIV4eiGAI4 Here we are in the middle of October and summer has come back to visit. Over the weekend, the morning lows have moved back into the upper 70s. And stepping out on the back porch, are the front porch for that matter, is like stepping into a sauna...…
Sunday https://youtu.be/HtFCpENC1G0 It's an in-between kind of day... Not summer yet not fall either. A sleep-in kind of Sunday. I'm about to start cooking breakfast so this will just be a quick little muse. Gary Myers shared some music over on Redtree Times this morning that led me to the…
Thursday https://youtu.be/hmuP_AQcAdw Walking out on the back porch just after 6:00 a.m. this morning, the world was dark. The sky was clear. And Orion shown brightly directly overhead. The only sound was the roar of traffic on the bypass... When I stepped out for the second time, the sun was…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/MubjkD_S1i8 As I took the photos in the video this morning hummingbirds were buzzing right by my head. As I stood less than 6 inches from a feeder two hummers sat and ate right beside my face. When one would leave another would take it's place. Others were on…
Thursday https://youtu.be/KXa99_c6-Ww It was 75°, when I walked out this morning onto the darkened back porch. The humidity was high settling like a blanket over the world. Once the sun began to brighten the neighborhood, I could see a light mist hugging the ground abd dew covering the grass and…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/GBHFlEXVJMs After I woke grandkid number one this morning, I stepped out on the back porch into what felt like a return to summer... The temperature was above 75°, and the humidity was pushing 100%. Off in the distance lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled softly. For the first bus…
Friday https://youtu.be/mazVlMjIDVc A person could get used to mornings starting out in the '50s. It's another gorgeous day on the back porch. Fall like temperatures and low humidity. What could be better for starting the last day of the week and going into a weekend. Wednesday's cold front almost swept…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/e0lPUyAQ93E
Monday https://youtu.be/86W2GOTVkfc We're just waiting for the weather to change... Me and the hummingbirds... There are dozens swarming around the feeders front and back. They and I are waiting for the cold front the prognosticators are promising us in the next couple of days. Me... I'll enjoy sitting on the…
https://youtu.be/VSdC3K9p7Cw I was playing with the GoPro yesterday afternoon watching the swarms of Hummingbirds attack my feeders and each other. It took awhile to put together the video and upload it to YouTube,
Friday https://youtu.be/fEsSix79zyk After I wake up my granddaughter at 6:00 a.m. I usually step out onto the dark back porch to get a feel for the day. A lot of mornings if I look up and see any stars at all, I see my old friend Orion overhead. Come the…
Thursday https://youtu.be/zChfJFlM3J8 When I walked out on the back porch at 6:00 a.m. there were stars shining in the sky. By 7:00 a.m. clouds had covered the entirety of the dome. The temperatures are still mild unlike the aftermath for every tropical system I've ever lived through. It's unseasonably fall…
Saturday, 9/11 https://youtu.be/QZgOoG-vLPg This morning I'm out on the back porch enjoying unseasonably nice fall weather. The morning temperature was 64° when I walked out. The humidity is a livable 84%. In the hour I've already spent out here, the temperature is risen 2° as I watched hummingbirds battle for…
Friday https://youtu.be/f5qwTaOLAo0 There's a pleasure in visiting the outdoors when both the temperature and the humidity meet in the lower 70s. And this morning I reaped the benefits of that pleasure when the temperature was 73° with a 73% humidity. I really do understand that this is just a preview…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/nFUMp0YgTO0
Monday, Labor Day https://youtu.be/z8QJmdAeP3I Walking out on the back porch this morning it felt cooler. Though, truth be told at 78°, it's been cooler of a morning. But then I pulled up the humidity... And in the mid '80s that's enough of a difference to make it feel much cooler.…
Friday https://youtu.be/tI6tGQ0XbFg I walked out on the back porch this morning in the pre-dawn dark with stars shining overhead and lightning flashing to the south. Thunderstorms offshore, headed our way. The temperature in the upper 70s and the humidity in the upper 90s, it wasn't particularly pleasant in that pre-dawn…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/b8ctGQR0tho Stepping out on the back porch this morning before first light it felt like I thought it should feel on a warm and humid last day of August. The temperature was 79°, cooler than normal was still quite warm. It felt humid, but there was no condensation on…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/EGzYPUwWxiU
Sunday https://youtu.be/pjVwlHmwMd8 Walking out this morning was almost painful. The temperature was already 78 degrees and the humidity was 90%... Pretty much right where it should be for this time of year, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. The only thing worse than summers on the Texas…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/SSPp3ynjC5c
Tuesday Well, the temperature at 74° is quite pleasant, the humidity at 97% is visible in the air as a haze. I'm letting the grandkids get one last day of summer sleep before I start rousting them out of bed early, they're really going to be sad when they start…
https://youtu.be/9EEntShZ1T4 My wife woke me up early this morning because see smelted something foul and gaseous this morning when she stepped outside. After making sure it was not just a gas escape ay our house, I went online to check with the local Facebook Group... Boy was everyone upset. It…
Sunday It's Sunday morning quiet on the back porch this a.m. . Even the birds are keeping it quiet this morning. The temperature is 75°. Unusual, really unusual, for this time of the calendar. Even the humidity is down a notch at just 92%. I have to admit, that the…
Friday the 13th This would be an auspicious day for my grandfather. He always claimed that 13 was his lucky number. It always seemed to be good for him. Let's hope, it's good for me too... And good for you. We're having another of those cooler than normal August mornings.…
Wordless Wednesday
Monday I was pulled from my slumber by the roar of lawn mowers in the yard. The lawn crew was busy at work early on this Monday morning. By the time they were done and gone It was 9:00 a.m. . According to the online weather folks, it's already 85°.…
Friday Well it's Friday, another week gone by. The temperatures are moderate outside but the humidity is rising again. At least the humidity and the temperatures are low enough that the windows aren't covered in condensation. I've already got my podcast playing and I've been lost in space for a…
Wordless Wednesday
Monday I'm up early this morning, a preview of school mornings to come. The sun hasn't broken the horizon yet. There's a mist hanging over the ground. The humidity is high, the temperature not as much. For the next few days, I'll be rising early and getting the granddaughter school…
Friday The deep dark blue of the southern sky almost makes up for the heat and humidity... Almost. It's 83° this morning when I walk out, and the humidity is only 83%. But that extra 5° of temperature doesn't make the lower humidity feel any better. The Delta variant of…
Tuesday, Laundry Day The clouds are back this morning, and it's not quite 80°. Though the humidity is at 94%. It really doesn't feel that pleasant out... But it could be worse. It looks like the sun will be playing hide and seek most of the day. It's actually been…
Friday Well, the heat is back and the humidity is up and it's miserable out on the back porch. According to the wunderground had already feels like 95° outside. And today's chance of a cooling shower is only at 12%. It's going to be really really hot this weekend. At…
Sunday Yesterday it was an interesting day. There was this big white orb up in the sky, an unfamiliar presence. It was bright, it gave off heat, it hadn't been noticed for a while. I think it was the Sun. But I woke up this morning to more clouds... And…
Wordless Wednesday
Thunder and lightning moved through earlier, so even now a singular rumble of thunder moves across the landscape. But funny thing, no rain fell. The driveway is dry. At least the temperature is down and the upper 70s for a change. Though I'm sure, the humidity is still high. And…
Wordless Wednesday
Looking at the photos above gives you a pretty good idea of what's happening in the atmosphere. We sit on the northwest corner of a massive clouds rolling out into the gulf. So to the east in the first picture it's full on overcast. To the south in the middle…
