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 they travel across the yard. The flocks of blackbirds are gathered in the pecans behind…
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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 the corner. The prognosticators are foretelling of a cool front blowing the clouds away this…
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 weather. Without the brite sun streaming in around the window blinds, another hour in bed…
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, holding sound to the ground, making birds voices ring throughout the yard, through the woods,…
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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 of the clouds that cover the sky. The temperature right now is 64°, but the…
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 will be very spring-like. High's in the 70s and lows in the upper 50s or…
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 never would have spotted him at night. I added some solar lights to the back…
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 it should be on a Saturday morning. The gray fox visited again last night. I…
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 noticed that when the big flocks are in the area the smaller birds hold up…
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 minutes this morning for the ice on the windshield to melt as we waited for…
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 Pearland at one point. While it was cold, and windy, it wasn't cold enough to…
It's very chilly outside, it actually made it into the 30s last night. Driving back to the house this morning from taking the kids to the bus stop, there was frost on the shingles of the house. Looking back towards the bayou I can see a narrow river of fog…
The start of school for 2021 Up early, kids out to the road, waiting on buses in the fog. Both of the grandkids now headed for school for the first time since March 2020. Let's hope this isn't a mistake. It's quite foggy out this morning. The birds are singing…
It's warmer this morning. I must say, if the mornings are any indication, 2021 is starting out much nicer than 2020 ended. I won't hold out too much hope though... Republicans are still trying to stage a coup. Ted Cruz is to be expected... He led the charge into Florida…
It's in the mid forties this morning... Sun shining in a cloudless sky... No breeze is blowing. The Christmas decorations are packed away in their storage containers. While both trees await their repacking for another year in the attic. I still have outside lights to take down around the front…
It's a bit chilly outside at 43°. Scattered clouds are keeping the sun from warming the world too quickly. I have just a couple of more days to enjoy sleeping in before the school year starts back up. It's a new year and I have to get back on a…
Once again it's 70° this morning. It's very breezy. But the clouds that cover the sky, they are standing still. The chickens around the corner talking as chickens do. And the wind is whistling through the pines. When I came out this morning, I forgot to bring me a cup…
It's another unseasonable winter's day. The temperature is a mild 70°. There's just the slightest of breezes blowing on the back porch here. The wind chimes or tinkling their little music. The sun is finally breaking through the clouds. And a chickadee is sitting above my head on the feeder.…
Winding down on 2020... Thank God. It's a beautiful almost spring like morning. There's a breeze, temperature is cool. The wind chimes are chiming. And the chickens, they are clucking. There's a bank of clouds moving in from the southeast. Beginning to cover the blue skies this morning. Over on…
Happy Birthday Breanna Out early on the back porch. It's unseasonably nice. T-shirt weather... The sound of the morning seems to be the chickens waking up around the corner. https://youtu.be/kdi2EEfVOuA Large trucks seem to be out and about today. From the sounds they're dump trucks. I saw a "V" of…
The grass is brown, leaves have fallen, needles are brown on the cypress trees. I think winter is here. Just the temperature disagrees. It's 62 degrees out already. The news isn't promising coming out of our government. The disfunctioning way the Senate has operated for the last decade or so…
Running late this morning. Setting up a new phone takes longer than I thought. I hope everyone's Christmas was everything you expected. I think I'll be back to the regularly scheduled programming tommorow. Y'all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for our Nation and the world.
Christmas Eve https://youtu.be/uUEwWB1qej0 The front that finally arrived last night around 9pm is still blowing hard outside. The temperatures plunged from a high of almost 80 yesterday to a low in the 30's this morning. The wind is expected to keep blowing all day and tonight's low will be pushing…
It's loud out this morning. Mostly the sound of chickens raising a fuss. It's also very bright out. Sunshine like this makes it hard to sleep in even with the blinds down. It's really mild out, temperature wise... Already 63℉ and it's not forecast to go up all that much…
Another cool and brilliant December morning. The winter solstice... autumns end and winters beginning. This is supposed to be the shortest day(light) day of the year. Today the sun will shine 10 hours and 15 minutes. Up in New York where my son is calling home there's a marked difference...…
Well, it's late and we've been sitting around talking on this brite Sunday morning. Fog settled in overnight and as it rises there's a glare in the sky. It's feels warmer today... though really it's not. It's just not raining. And after the near floods of yesterday, that's a good…
Today it's raining. The temperature is in the sixties. We will bounce around with highs in the sixties till Wednesday then it'll be highs in the fifties for awhile. For a change it will be seasonally cold to start on Christmas day. The forecast is even calling for strong north…
Another cold and cloudy morning. Looking outside as I went through the morning routine it was unaccustomedly dark. When I stepped out on the porch it all became clear. Once again the sky looks more troubled than it actually is. All day yesterday I was seeing that my northern friends…
It's a frosty, cold morning. As in, there's frost on the grass. It's still, no breeze is stirring... which evidently helped the temperature fall. It's 31 degrees outside, 34 degrees on the porch. Did I say it's frosty. A train whistle interrupts the quiet of the house. Train whistles, Carolina…
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Another prelude to winter. A reflection of winters long ago. Damp, cold, short dreary days followed by short dreary days. If this continues it will be a fitting end to the long and dreary year of Covid-19. A fitting end to a long four dreary years of living in the…
Lines of thunderstorms have been moving thru all day long... just now another line blew thru... and it really did blow.
Laying abed this morning, the light coming in from around the blinds was fading as the minutes passed. Now I see why... by the time I arose, the rumbles of distant thunder were making themselves heard. By the time I had acquired my record shots of the morning a mist…
An overcast morning fallowing a rainy night. Not a lot of rain, but, rain none the less. At 9am it's almost 70 degrees outside... so it's shorts and a tshirt kind of day. The birds were singing when I went out. And I could hear a phoebe announcing itself. I…
It's a wonderfully mild morning on the back porch. A bit breezy, a little bit cool, with the promise of warmth later in the day. There's an overcast that bodes well for a colorful sunrise... The morning light goes through color shifts as the sun approaches the horizon from below.…
I thought this morning would be a good day to look back on the progression of fall color this year... That sequence runs from mid November to today. My one living, breathing red tree. It's only been the last ten years or so that the red oak has acquired it's…
It's loud out on this frosty morning. Temperatures in the upper thirties with no breeze... the roar from the bypass is the loudest I've heard in awhile. I've gone into holiday mode here the last couple of weeks. Spending time reading and contemplating where we've been. Not so much time…
Some would call this a perfectly fine morning... I would place myself among them... except, I'm not of a mind to dress for the upper thirties today. So once again I'll be spending this coffee muses on the inside looking out. It's clear... it's still... it's quite chilly on the…
It's another chilly morning outside. So I'm sitting on the inside looking out. The sky is mostly clear. The leaves on the trees are still. The temperature is just north of the 40 degree mark. The prognosticators are foretelling of a high in the 50's. The muse isn't musing this…
When I first stepped out on the back porch this morning it was chilly and blustery... the wind chill was pushing the thirties. The overcast was so deep that the sun was doing little to brighten the day. Even now, almost an hour later, it's a dark wintery looking day.…
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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…
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... almost not there but there. Layers coalescing and separating, combining and dividing, dancing to the…
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 one. The eastern sky is just beginning to lighten. It pretty much is just as…
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 fabric... he is still roaming the fabric looking for breakfast. The morning an hour after…
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 see the hole in the top... black on black in an unaccustomed blackness. And to…
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 fades into the background. By the time the shot above was taken, three separate flights…
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 the polls yesterday. When Sherry got home from work we drove to the library 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 that cool... so the ceiling fans are on chilling my hair still damp from my…
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 portents. The dense air is helping the traffic sounds travel from the bypass with a…
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 a Hurricane on land. According to the prognoticaters, this coolish morning will have to last…
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 made me smile, but after a couple of weeks of fall-like temperatures I'm just not…
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 can see these are the outer bands of Hurricane Delta starting to move into our…
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 through an environment. I was unable to really gauge there number, but at a guess,…
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 bowl of the sky. Birds are singing. Crows are cawing. The whistling ducks flew over…
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 over on it's side... The morning flight of whistling ducks keeps getting larger. It appeared…
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 schedule is for this morning as we slide into fall. 6:00am Start of astronomical twilight…
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 best to try and outdo the traffic. A flight of great egrets flew over just…
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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 day as it circles my house as the sky brightens. This morning it's the cardinals…