At least our run-up to the deep freeze next week is being led off by a string of colorful sunrises. Looking at the 10 day forecast this morning has a greater than even chance of... Snow on Tuesday morning. With the low on Tuesday night forecasted to be 21°. Looks…
I woke up this morning to 38° on the phone. All of the weather forecasters are teasing about the possibility of snow early next week... We'll see.
Catching the early bus on the first friday of the 2025 school year after the first "Winter" storm of the New Year... Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a high school student on the bus at 6:33am every weekday?
Words cannot express a more divergent forecast of extremes.
And all through the house thunder is boomingWhile children sleep after overindulging on the day itself,Up on the housetop the sound of rain and hail can be heard...Luckily, Saint Nick has made it home from his eventful day...So... As I sit and enjoy the peace and quiet of the house,I'll…
And this is why we call it fall.
At least a SE Texas white Christmas...
December 16, 2024
Between the winds and full color.
Fall color will be gone before it really arrived.
At least it's started...
On a cool fall morning.
And it actually feels like autumn!
18 October 2024
Even though September is here, Summer's hold on this part of the country is still tight?
I saw on the internets last night that temperature is in the Northeast 40s in places. That was on a day when my back porch temperature at 101°. First time that I've noticed this year... And stepping out on the front porch this morning, the heat was oppressive. Even the…
The crews lined out street for most of the day. Then this happened... So for the past two hours we've been looking at this... Maybe we'll get power... Eventually...
A very interesting morning. Our power has been out all day. I really don't expect to see power for at least a day or two if not more. And my yard looks like it has been bombed. There's more tree damage than we had during Ike. But, we survived and…
Mimosa blossoms Chaste tree blooms almost open With temperatures rising above 80° each day, the start of summer is definitely here.
According to the weather prognosticators, most of today will look just like it does right now. Though, our run of 70° temperatures has pretty much come to an end for a while... And those overnight lows in the 50's.. we probably won't see another one of those before fall rolls…
At 6:30 a.m. The air is a crispy 50°. It's noisy out.. the constant hum of rubber on blacktop from the bypass, the birds song in the trees, even the roar of train Wheels on railroad tracks.... Such of the sounds of pre-dawn here at my home.... Later... On the…
I'm standing out on the front porch this morning. Waiting for my grandson to get on the school bus... And I'm struck by how beautiful a spring morning it is. Even though the sun is not up, the birds are singing as if their lives depended upon it. There is…
Wordless Wednesday
Two shots, taken an hour apart, from the same location. It's a pleasant spring morning with a temperature in the mid-50s. But judging from the forecast, summer is just around the corner. Here we are , not even a week into April, and the forecasted high today is 86°. Eighty…