'Tis a frosty morn out this day. An appropriate way to start the final month of 2020. My weather app says it is 30 degrees outside and I believe it. All of my temperature sensors are on porches about the house and they average 3 to 4 degrees warmer. This…
It's chilly outside... so I'm musing indoors. It's not the low temperature so much as the blustery north winds. Tomorrow is going to be even colder. It's hard getting the grandkids moving after a week out of school. It'll be even harder after the next break. For a change the…
The sun was shinning thru the clouds with a squinting brightness when I walked out... now the clouds have closed back in and the glare is gone. A blustery north wind is cooling the morning. A cardinal sings from the edge of the woods. Two days of rain have soaked…
It's ten degrees cooler than yesterday... not cool enough to call for long sleeves yet, maybe tomorrow. A steady lite rain is falling, and a steady north breeze is blowing. Besides the gentle patter of the falling rain, it the gossip of the chickens that is providing the background sound…
It's a bit on the warm side this morning. And a lite rain is falling. Evidently it's been falling for awhile. The trees are filled with dozens of small birds. The muted colors of fall are more evident in the rain. But I'm still waiting for the full blown color…
It's exactly one month till Christmas Eve. And as we approach Thanksgiving, I can't help but wonder at the total lack of Christian ideals from around the country. I guess we've finally achieved separation of church and state. If only in the fact that professed Christians can divorce their beliefs…
As we work our way to Thanksgiving Day this week I'm going to spend some valuable musing time thinking about what I have to be thankful for. Number one on my thankful list is that, so far, no one in my immediate family has fallen victim to Covid-19. With the…
A pleasantly cool Sunday morning... with a Sunday morning quietude going on. Even the chickens around the corner are not their normally chatty selves. Maybe they feel the poultry dinner doldrums as we close in on Turkey Day. Somewhere way off a train whistle blows. Soon the quietness will be…
Today the world has pulled the covers up over its head. Trying to get a little bit more sleep before being forced to face the craziness... Foggy mornings are different... almost surreal. Birds sound closer, trains sound far off, traffic noise seems to come from different directions than normal. Everything…
It's not quite as cool. The sky's not a vibrantly clear. Sunrise this morning is actually a bit more interesting with the addition of the clouds. Though it's a bit funny the way those dark clouds dissipate almost the minute they feel the sun. But, the clouds on the eastern…
Once more around the clock. Cool, 45 degrees... check. Bright, cloudless skies... check. My breath visible... check. Ahhhhhh... if only this was our normal I'd be extremely happy. There's a flock of midsized birds in the woods... I don't recognize their chatter. With the glare of the rising sun in…
It's cold and crisp this morning. The sounds of trains, traffic, and crows fill the pre-sunup day. Birds chirp and chatter. And every breath I take is visible in the air before me. I find myself at a loss for words today. Sitting, listening, thinking... not writing. It's just after…
It twas a very strange morning on the back porch. Warm and muggy when I walked out and thirty minutes later it was cool and blustery. It was probably the warmest time of the day with a temperature of 74 degrees. Now, I'm back inside and the temperature has ballen…
I lay in bed a while after the alarm... wasn't really asleep. I had actually been awake for a bit before the alarm... in that half world of fantasy and reality... thoughts running through my head. Once I decided to move I wandered about my morning routine... with the added…
The morning starts out warm and gray. An overall, overreaching, overwhelming gray to the world. Even the normally unheard cows in the neighbor's pasture are mooing mournfully. This transitional weather leaves a lot to be desired. Waiting for the change, anticipating the change even, frustrated by the slowness of the…
The sun rises onto a cooler morning on the back porch. Not a lot cooler, but here in Texas every little bit helps. Once again the prognosticators are foretelling of a high in the 80's. Once again we are forced to watch a petulant schoolyard bully bluster and lie about…
It's another hazy, overcast, almost cool fall morning. The second train of the morning is going through town. And a bird I like to call the squeaky gate bird is calling from the pine trees. It's probably just a secondary call of a blue jay, since I usually hear it…
As you can see, yesterday's fog is back and lower. The world feels smaller, more closely held, layers of gray. The overnight lows are easing back up. It's warm enough to make the ceiling fans a a luxury I might not need but can enjoy. The birds are a bit…
It's a pleasant 68 degrees this morning under a rising dense fog. There's a lite breeze blowing from the north. Chicken sounds are coming from the place around the corner. I'm glad I don't live closer. It must be a bit like living close to a commercial chicken house. Color…
The ground fog is thickening as the morning brightens. It's cool out, but not as nippy as it has been. My thermometer said 56 before I walked our. It's cool enough to see my breath. But not cool enough to make me feel underdressed in my shorts and Henley. We…
I woke up, once again, before the alarm. There was such a glow in the bathroom window I had to rush out and capture the sunrise... boy, was it worth it! Now I'm back inside checking to see if anything has changed in the counting of the vote... looks pretty…
Daylight Savings Time has gone for another year and my alarm goes off just before sunrise. So my morning coffee muses won't be spent waiting for the light. The three shots above were taken right after I walked out this morning. And quiet it isn't. Birds are singing all around…
I now recall the real reason for the umbrella. Even with the alarm going of at 6:30 the sun comes up pretty quickly once we are back on "standard" time. It takes the umbrella to keep the rising sun from my eyes. The first thing I heard this morning was…
Another very cool morning with starry skies. I added a layer to my henley... my fleece hoodie is just enough to keep me comfortable enough to stay on the porch for awhile. The weather app is reporting a temp of 46 degrees. An invigorating temperature to say the least. A…
Western sky. It's really quiet out this morning on the back porch. Seemingly more so because of a lack of need for the ceiling fans. The weather app on my phone says it's 63 degrees but it doesn't feel that cool. The sensor on the back porch was reading 67...…
It's not so cool, and it's overcast this morning. It's late, as usual for a Sunday morning. Other than a train moving down the rails blasting at the crossings, it's even pretty quiet. I can't see that the clouds are even moving. Gary Myers had a good post about the…
Ah, Saturday morning. Add in a cool front that had this morning's temperature in the 50's and a cool north breeze and the morning couldn't get much better. Though, I had to open the umbrella to keep the sun's glare out of my eyes so I can enjoy the morning.…
It's 50 minutes till sunrise, but already I can see fog around the lights in the neighborhood. It's not the normal ground fog either... even in the dark I can see it reaches to the tops of the trees. While it's not a pea soup kind of fog, I'm sure…
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 the ghosts of days long gone. This morning multiple flights of whistling ducks flew over…
