Wordless Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tag: #mybackyard
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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...…
Sunday, October 25, 2020
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…
Saturday, October 24, 2020
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.…
Friday, October 23, 2020
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…
Thursday, October 22, 2020
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…
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
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…
Monday, October 19, 2020
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…
Sunday, October 18, 2020
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…
Friday, October 16, 2020
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…
Thursday, October 15, 2020
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…
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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…
Monday, October 12, 2020
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…
Saturday, October 10, 2020
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…
Friday, October 9, 2020
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…
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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…
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…
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
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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…
Friday, September 25, 2020
It really feels of fall this morning. Sixty-six wonderful degrees. What I am assuming is a clear sky... if there are clouds they aren't evident yet. A color on the eastern horizon even before first light. Birds singing, crows announcing themselves on their morning rounds. Theirs a low hazy ground…
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…
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…
