Friday It's almost 10° warmer this morning. Still, it's much more seasonable than the above 70° start we've been having. The Christmas Day forecast is out... The low Christmas morning will be in the '30s. The high Christmas Day will just reach 50°... About what it is right now. It…
A wintery looking start to a wintery mix of a day morning coffee muses.
It's another overcast morning in the hill country, a chilly morning coffee muses.
Low forties, overcast with rain about on radar, hill country morning coffee muses.
Cold, wet, windy hill country morning coffee muses.
Loading the car for a roroad trip morning coffee muses.
Early Birthday Road Trip No pictures yet, I'll work on adding some in the morning. It was overcast all day. A long gray road trip... The Wildlife Refuge was almost empty of birds. The most common birds were ibis, I also saw a couple Mississippi KItes and a Crested Caracara.…
Motel Room Morning Coffee Muses Trussville, Alabama. It's just a Quality Inn back off the interstate. Old style motel, well maintained rooms, restaurants within walking distance... even for me. We've stayed here before. It's only a place to lay your head between two long days on the road. If I've…
Our last morning on the mountain, getting ready to head home...
Just Another Rainy Mountaintop Morning Coffee Muses
Thursday morning on the mountain Another late morning start to my coffee muses... The Day is starting out the warmest we've felt yet. 60° right now but breezy still from last night. Mt Airy was warm, over eighty, but not too bad. It was a nice little town, we had…
Slept In On The Mountain Morning Coffee Muses Late nights and mountain air conspired to keep me in bed till well after sunrise this morning. The morning temperatures aren't quite as cool and the forecast is for a bit warmer today. The forecasted high is 72°... yesterday's high was 65°.…
Mountain Sunrise Morning Coffee Muses Boy the sun rises early here. It's a chilly start to the morning here on Tom's Knob. It's 51 and change to start the day. There's a hound baying up the road. Unknown birds singing to the daybreak. Now there's another dog answering the hound.…
First Mountain Morning Coffee Muses A beam of sunlight streaming thru a hole in the blinds woke me this morning. I stumbled to the kitchen and started the coffee maker before wandering outside with my camera. The above is the sight that greater me. And the big image at the…
This isn't a coffee muses... I'm having water after unloading the car. More Photos Here And... enjoying that view. Later, I'll be enjoying that hot tub as the evening temperature drops thru the fifties before settling into the forties... catch you all tomorrow...
I've forgotten how long I've been doing this as an annual tradition. It goes back well over a decade. This years trip felt more like my hunt for spring flowers than my birthday.
I seldom find myself rising with the sun... At least not since the fall of 2008. And so, I don't see all that many sunrises. Be that as it may, this shot from just around the corner from my house, is still one of my favorites... Alvin Sunrise
The entire (well mostly anyway) reason for our jaunt up the road to the middle of the country wasn't to see the famous Arch. It wasn't to celebrate history. It wasn't even to find a cooler climate, though, that seemed to happen on the one day that mattered. The reason for the trip was to visit the special facility the citizens of St. Louis had built for the simple pleasure of watching the summertime antics of a flock of red birds. Cardinals of the subspecies Americanis baseballus St. Louis.
A cool front was moving through the area as I watched that morning. The day promised to be pleasantly warm and not as uncomfortably hot as it had been all week.
We headed north out of Houston on Tuesday before the sun came up and hit Oklahoma soon after noon. I had routed our trip to take advantage of the Arkansas Mountains...We had reservations at Queen Wilhelmena State Park for the first night of our travels.
The heat of the day arrived at about the same time I arrived at Brazos Bend State Park just the other side of the Brazos River from us off of FM 1462 and FM 762.
Just to give you an idea of the area of the state we were covering here is an image of the page in The Roads of Texas - 5th Edition map book I use to travel our state... So, now that we have visited Friendship and Bryant Station it's time…
This past week my wife expressed a desire to visit the cemeteries where ancestors are resting up around Milam County in central Texas. Since the weekend was one of the few our daughter was off (thus no need for babysitter Paw-paw), I suggested we enjoy the the last of the…
Some of the shots I took yesterday as I played on a roadtrip into Texas Spring... I try each year to make a day trip into the closest wildflower country to my home. The trip takes about two hours just to start seeing good fields of color. Usually, I begin…
[ti_billboard name="Spring Day"] We took a drive around the county yesterday...Me and my Nikon. The slideshow above has some of the results...I hope you enjoy.
The Weather Yesterday, when I went through my daily email, this is what I saw from the weather gurus at My-Cast.com... Currently (on Fri 6:22AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport) Thunderstorm Temp: 70° Dewpoint: 64° Wind: S 10 MPH Today's email brought this... Currently (on Sat 6:06AM CST from Pearland Regional…
I realized yesterday about noon that it was exactly six months since my birthday. Since this was an auspicious anniversary being as how it marked fifty-five point five years on the planet, I decided to honor the day with half a birthday road trip... I learned something from this short…
We had a "cool" front blow through here this morning...Cool is now at 71° and rising. The front brought an hour or so of rain and then clear blue sky. The real sign of spring though is the cardinals, you know...Red birds chasing other red birds out of their perceived…
We cruised through East Columbia on the way home. East Columbia is one of the earliest settlements in this part of the state. It was founded in 1823 as Bell's Landing.
Through this all, I couldn't bring myself to document the damage with my camera...It was enough just to see what was what...So on I drove. All the way around the island...through the Strand...Along Broadway...And finally over the new Causeway...And here was where the totality of the destruction hit me...
