Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Wordless Wednesday Borrowed From DoubleVerify
Tag: #coffeemuses
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
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,…
Monday, October 5, 2020
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…
Sunday, October 4, 2020
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…
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Saturday morning... an hour and a half of extra sleep... a cool fall morning. Quiet, the only sounds are traffic roar from the bypass... louder on this side of the house. Well... karma seems to have caught up with our president***. His politicalization of masks and social distancing seems to…
Friday, October 2, 2020
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…
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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…
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday, September 29, 2920
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…
Monday, September 28, 2020
It's a warm and muggy pre-cold front start to the day. The first front is around Waco heading our way. There are enough clouds out over Galveston Bay to make the sunrise interesting even if a temperature of 77 degrees doesn't make it very comfortable. There's an owl softly calling…
Sunday, September 27, 2020
The sun rose over an hour ago. It's warmer and there's enough humidity to fog my glasses just a bit as I walked out. I had to increase the speed of the ceiling fans back to full power. The hummingbirds are fighting as usual. A daddy longlegs scurries across the…
Saturday, September 26, 2020
I'm on the front porch this morning. Another below seventy degree morning. The crows are congregating, not quite a murder yet, but gathering... playing at follow the leader. Big black velvety birds with a big, area filling call. I slept thru sunrise. My favorite weekend activity in these pandemic times.…
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Sunrise facing southeast. The temperature outside this morning is delightful. A couple of degrees below that magical 70 degrees Fahrenheit on the thermometer. And after days and days of winds from Beta, it's still this morning. The outsized remnants of Beta have moved into Alabama and Tennessee. Once the storm…
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
I walked out this morning at sunrise to a back porch that was wet. Given the rainfall of the past day... not surprising. But also wet was my rocking chair. So I grabbed my shots and then wandered by in. I did hear yesterday's owl calling plaintively from the soggy…
Monday, September 21, 2020
According to the almanac it's first light right now... but Tropical Storm Beta is putting a lie to that. The only light in the sky is the reflection of civilization on the underside of the cloud cover. It's loud out, the blustery, gusty winds are making the leaves sing. Shadows…
Sunday, September 20, 2020
It's a cool, breezy morning. Our first fall-like morning of the late, almost over summer season. But, don't worry, the heat and humidity will be back... we're not done with summer here on the Texas gulf coast. As a matter of fact, as you can see from the radar image…
When Coffee Muses Go Wrong…
Sometimes my morning coffee muses hits a snag... this morning it brought about coffee muses man... Coffee Muses Man Kinda reminds me of the cartoon character from the 1970's. I finally remembered the character after a long senior moment... here y'all go...
Saturday, September 19, 2020
This was the sky just minutes after I heard the news that RBG had passed. May she rest in peace. Now we get to see the full nature of what today's Republicans are in their souls. Just over four years ago they set a precedent, so what does Mitch McConnell…
Friday, September 18, 2020
The silence thirty minutes before sunrise is deafening. The overcast sky just barely lighter than the shadowy blackness of the trees. Though there is enough of a glow to the sky to make the ground visible. The Houston/Galveston eathglow effect. The first bird calls. Then another. A breeze stirs the…
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Yesterday's sequence of photos inspired me to do it again once I saw the morning sky... First Light - Dawn The first shot was at Dawn... first light in the sky. The noun dawn refers to the first light of day, or the first time period, like the dawn of…
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
It's not cool, but it's not that warm either. Pairs of crows keep flying over heading south... raising a ruckus as only crows can. The day gradually lightening as the sun approaches the horizon. The hummingbirds chatter at each other as they bully their way to dominance at the feeder...…
Monday, September 14, 2020
It's a strange morning, no color in the east... what color there is is in the west as the sun rises. In the east it's bands of clouds flowing across the sky from north to south... filling in as the minutes tick by. While around the porch the hummingbird battles…
Sunday, September 13, 2020
The sun is well up. Birds are singing. The hummingbird wars continue. The coolness of yesterday morning is fading into memory like a barely remembered dream. The promised rains keep teasing us on an almost daily basis. Thunder, lightning, a bit better breeze... and then 5 minutes of lite rain…
Saturday, September 12, 2020
I love weekends. Before covid, I slept in most days... even through the summer I didn't have to get up early. Now that school has started, and virtual school does keep a school schedule, I'm up before the sun five days a week. So... I love weekends... again. I doubt…
September 11, 2020
There's a difference in the feel of the air this morning. For one thing it's cooler. For another, the clouds are drifting south instead of the more normal northerly direction. I don't know that the front ever made it this far before falling apart. But it really got close. But,…
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Once again we are being promised a fifty percent chance of rain. The prognosticators are also foretelling of highs next week in the upper eighties... of course, that foretelling comes with a good chance of rain all week. Oh well, if I can have cooler weather, I'll take a little…
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Sunrise is really fleeting. And the glow from the rising sun can begin, become, hit wow and wind down in the blink of the eyes... And all the while hummingbirds swarm the feeders. There always appears to be one feeder that gets the most visitors while the others are claimed…
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
I awoke to the distant rumble of thunder. I walked out on the back porch to lightening and more thunder and a darker than normal pre-sunrise backyard. The radar tells the story. The only sound besides the thunder... the cheeps of the hummingbirds in the dark. I've figured out what's…
