After the coolness of yesterday afternoon, today's return to warm and muggy leaves me wanting. Even the birds aren't singing much this morning. Only the cicadas are in song. The few clouds I can see are high and wispy, not the thunder bloomers of yesterday. There were times yesterday when…
After a day of on again off again rain storms, the light at day's end does wonderful thing to the eastern sky.
Father's Day. It's been about a quarter century since my Dad passed... sometimes it doesn't seem that long ago, sometimes it seems like forever. I think about him every now and again and wish I could tell him I loved him. For myself, I had a #1 Grandpa mug and…
As I fought the call of day this morning, rumblings of thunder rolled my dreams. Once I gave up the fight I found rain falling steadily. I wasn't anticipating this type of weather before tomorrow or the next day. I just checked the radar. And it looks like this rain…
It's not as cool, not as comfortable as the past few days. I doubt I'll be hanging out here on the back porch for much longer than it takes to record my morning muses. There's a raft of clouds building to the east. The humidity is up. And the cicadas…
Another bright morning on the back porch. The ceiling fans are turning even though the temperature is mild. The cardinals are making their presence known with their song. Along with the mourning doves, that's about the only sounds on this weekend morning. A lite breeze is rustling the leaves. Low…
Ahhhhhh, spring for the moment. Following my normal routine, I filled my coffee cup and headed out the back door after turning on the outside ceiling fans... after only a couple of minutes in the rocker I had to get up and turn off the ceiling fans. Walking out into…
The air is heavy with moisture from the rains yesterday afternoon. Looking to the east, a haze obscures the clouds on the horizon. The air is so oppressive even the dragonflies are patrolling at treetop levels. At least there's a nice breeze blowing. Otherwise, I don't think even the ceiling…
I thought I'd try the front porch this morning. Yesterday I moved the spare floor fan around so these morning muses wouldn't be to uncomfortable as the sun rises. Looking mostly north. I am joined again by a cattle egret wandering through the yard looking for breakfast. A Carolina wren…
One of the best investments I made in designing this house was the ceiling fans on the back porch. While, one of the missed opportunities was not adding them to the front porch. That 20/20 hindsight will bite you in the buttocks every time. The breeze is out of the…
It's quiet out on the back porch this morning. Ceiling fans and cicadas, cardinals and finches. A breath of a breeze rustling the red oak leaves. June has settled upon the land rather lightly so far. My blog buddy Linda, posted that today is National Prairie Day. We once walked…
Coffee muses on the back porch again. It's more peaceful out here. Traffic noise from the road out front almost never rises above the white noise of the ceiling fans. As the trees fill out, even the bypass sounds are muted for another season. Looking east. You know summer is…
In my oversized rocking chair under the ceiling fans on the back porch once again. The morning is cool enough, though, not really cool at all. It was quiet as well... then I was joined by my chatterbox of a granddaughter. My two resident tree ducks just flew over headed…
Once again I'm sitting on the back porch listening to the birds and a distant train whistle. It's 74 out already, but the ceiling fans make it just right. There's enough moisture in the air to make it hazy in the distance. The birds today are very active. I guess…
Laundry Day. If I can be said to have a schedule, about the only sure thing I do with regularity is laundry day. Every Tuesday I get up and take my shower, then I sort the dirty laundry and take the first load to the laundry room and get the…
It's not too warm, but, after raining almost all afternoon yesterday, it's all kinds of muggy. Seems appropriate for the first day of June. The sky is still overcast... really dramatic looking in today's photos. Looking southwest. There's a train in the near distance announcing itself at a crossing. Coming…
I'm out on the back porch once again. With the ceiling fans moving the air, it's comfortable. The birds are filling the air with song a bit more than yesterday. Even had a couple of crows cawing from a sentinel pine next door. And Linda, there's even a squirrel playing…
On the back porch this morning. Ceiling fans on... the movement of the air provides some comfort on another muggy morning. The temperature is already in the mid-seventies and the clouds cover most of the sky. Looking southeast towards Galveston. It's quiet out this morning, I can't hear any traffic…
The morning is cool and bright. No evidence of the excessive heat to come by afternoon. The prognosticators are foretelling of more rain in the early afternoon. But the forecasted high is still in the upper 80's. Their scrying is calling for a upward rising trend with 90's within the…
I'm up earlier than normal. The house is empty of everyone but me. That's something it hasn't been since early March. The sky is overcast, some rain fell overnight. It's even cool enough to make me forget, for awhile, the summer like highs we've been seeing. A good little breeze…
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It's the middle of winter but you'd never know it from the weather... Our ten day forecast looks like this... We're heading up to almost 80° in the coming week. I've been noticing a difference in our bird visitors in the past few years. I haven't seen any Crested Titmouses…
It's frosty out there this morning. I wasn't expecting it... It's also pretty frosty in Washington. I listened to much of the hearings yesterday. What really came thru for me was the hate Republicans feel for Democrats... even as they accuse us of hating President Trump. Even as President Trump…
It's just after noon on this mid month Sunday. Ten days before Christmas and the weather feels anything but Christmas like. We are headed towards 80º today. At least it's breezy. So much so that the air is full of goldenrod seeds. I keep watching the fallen leaves scud along…
A cool, bright morning with clearing fog. Sadly, the fog in America politics isn't clearing. Between alternative facts and subjective truths, there is a fog of obstruction, a smokescreen of lies and conspiracy theories. With the President and his apologists screaming about fake news of their own admittance, Fox News…
Cool... quiet... There's a silence in the world this morning... an anticipation of awakening... A fluttering of feathers... a sudden bursting of birdsong... and suddenly, the silence is gone as if it never existed.. Enjoy the day...
Yesterday's rains left it cooler this morning. The prognosticators are foretelling of another front this weekend. Winds of change are blowing... Today's photo...
There's a lite rain falling this morning. Heat still hits you in the face in this summer that never ends,
Humid, very, very humid this morning. Not feeling the muse this morning.. So here's the photo of the morning... 0
