Thursday, January 11th As I sit here on the front porch, the temperature is already 59°. The forecasted high is 76°. So yes, we are at the peak of the roller coaster that Texas weather is this time of year. Saturday morning the low is forecasted to be 36°. Early…
Friday August 25th It's the last Friday in August. And it's almost pleasant here on the front age as well as the fan is blowing. The days are definitely getting shorter. It's still dark out of a morning when I walk out. Even when the first bus comes the day…
Thursday August 24th It's just another hot and humid morning in SE Texas... Without a drop of rain in the forecast. I was sitting around today when I noticed the second airplane buzzing by over the house... And for some reason that triggered a memory from my childhood. We lived…
Friday June 30th While my weather app is saying it's 80° out, my back porch indoor/outdoor thermometer is telling me it's 78° and so is my cell phone. Whatever the temperature, it's warm.. but.. not as warm and not as oppressively hot feeling as last week. And, if you believe…
Friday June 9th Today is actually cooler than yesterday.. at least the day is starting out that way. There's a haze in the air.. if it was a little thicker I'd call it a ground fog. A heavy dew lays on everything. Glistening where the sun hits it. I can…
Monday June 5th It's not as cool as it was when the power was out yesterday morning. The temperature this morning is 70°, the dew point is 68°. The only breeze is being supplied by the ceiling fans. The sun is trying to get above the clouds on the eastern…
Sunday June 4th We were awoken quite early this morning because of the lack of power.. electricity, you know.. it was right around 5:00 a.m. and the power was out for 2 hours.. of course everyone in the house woke up immediately. When we stepped out, we could see it…
Monday May 15th Stepped out before sunup to just a little bit more color. It's just a bit cooler this morning at 74°. Though now that I'm on the front porch waiting for the bus the sun has decided to hide behind the clouds. The forecast for the day has…
Saturday May 13th Once again I lay abed this Saturday morning. And once up, I wasn't impressed with the day as it looked. The morning temperature is already hovering around 80°. As you can see.. once again the sun is hiding. My experiment this year has been a bust for…
Friday April 7th It's a cool 59° this morning with a light rain falling. There's a steady breeze blowing out of the north at 10 mph. The breeze is just hard enough to make the tree limbs sigh as a move back and forth. Once again, we are facing a…
Tuesday March 4th It's 74° with gusty winds on this very humid and somewhat sticky morning. The winds are out of the south. Therefore it's still on the front porch as I want to wait for the bus to get the kids... The wind chimes are singing softly. You know,…
Sunday March 26th It's foggy. The 67° this morning feels different from the 67° of yesterday morning. Humidity changes everything. I am sitting on the back porch listening to the morning bird song. Also to the rumble of the distant trains.. The barking of the distant dogs.. The barely audible…
Tuesday March 21st What a difference a day can make ... The temperature this morning is 62°. The high today is going to be closing in on 80°. Welcome to spring. Once again, it's totally overcast. That's pretty much been the story of this winter.. mostly cloudy. I'm sitting on…
Monday March 20th Welcome Spring... Today I woke to an outside temperature of 35°. According to the guys at Space Center Weather this should be the last time we see temperatures this low for a good long while... The grandkids are headed back to school after being off all last…
Monday, January 9th It's a pleasantly cool 52° on the back porch this morning. The winds are calm, not a breeze blowing. Just enough light clouds in the sky to add some color to the sunrise this morning... Here's a bit of ground fog hanging through the woods... The chickens…
Sunday, January 8th It was a wild and stormy night... Thunder and lightning... An inch of rain fell while we slept. This morning on the back porch it's cool and windy. The temperature is 57°, the wind out of the north is gusting to 20 mph. The clouds in the…
Thursday It's finally feeling like the season... again. After teasing us with an early week of colder than normal weather, Mother Nature brought summer back for a long visit... Today we've moved back to feeling like it looks... 42 degrees on the porch this morning. I guess it's time to…
It's Thursday The morning is quieter. Our great migration of hummingbirds has migrated. No more battles royale all day long. Even the Cardinals seem a bit bemused by the absence. The morning traffic continues to become worse in front of the house. With all of the homes being built and…
It's Friday The above radar image is what was happening as the grandkids got on the bus for their second day of school. Between then and now we've had 1.25" of rain. Yesterday afternoon we had 1.6" and lost power for a couple of hours as the storms moved thru,…
Friday Finally... After weeks and weeks... We get more than a trace amount of rain. So far, coming up on noon, we're measuring just below 3/10 of an inch. And it's been slow, it's been steady, it's been just what we need... A soaking rain. I can only hope that…
It's Thursday I was dragged reluctantly from my slumber by the distant rumblings of thunder at 5am this morning. As I lay there listening... contemplating the rarity of this sound lately... thinking I really should watch this rare event... moisture falling from the sky... RAIN. So I stumbled out of…
It's Thursday There's a meme that's been going around for what seems like forever... Throwback Thursday. I haven't played it, but the outdoor temperature has be wishing for a cooler memory. Here are some of my shots from trips to the mountains... all of which were cooler than here and…
It's Friday It's another warm morning on the front porch. The temperature is 78° and the humidity is at 91%. So as I sit here the fan in the chair is blowing at medium. I'm sure not thrilled by the number of large trucks that feel like they have the…
It's Tuesday Even though the sun's just up, the thermometer is already reading 79°. So, this muse will be short... I hear a red tail hawk calling in the edge of the woods. Other than that, it's pretty quiet out. Yes there are the normal Cardinals singing. And there's a…
Friday It's bright out this morning. The sun is shining on a freshly washed world. The showers that were predicted for yesterday evening actually showed up. They weren't large, the duration of the rain was fairly short, but, while it lasted it was fairly heavy. Though the sound and light…
Saturday Jeep in field - 2007 Walkin' the dogs - 2010 Another walk in the woods - 2010 Watching the construction around the corner I was struck when this song by the Eagles came up in my que... The photos above are all of the woods and fields that no…
Thursday Happy birthday sis... Sitting on the front porch, between buses, I am still not used to the view that takes me all the way to the traffic on the bypass. The land clearing has now reached the property lines at the back of the houses and businesses across the…
Saturday afternoon Cool with a light, misty rain falling... The day has been stuck in the low 40s and the overcast has hung on... ... And on this weekend say a special prayer for the people of the Ukraine...
Tuesday Happy Birthday Abby The day started out with a light misty rain. Overcast. The temperature though, was quite moderate at 63°. The photos above I took from my back porch as I was putting out cat food this morning. All told there were five or six deer running across…
Monday “Only a select few are able to see the true beauty that lies behind what just might seem like a rainy day or a grey sky.” ~Jessica M. Laar~ It's overcast today. The temperature is a mild 50°. There's a misty rain falling. Even though these overcast days are…
https://youtu.be/qk_2kbnetXI Pecan Tree and Winter Sky I pulled into the driveway this January afternoon and the blue of the sky... with bare branches silhouetted demanded a moment... reflection... Pease.
Tuesday https://youtu.be/MubjkD_S1i8 As I took the photos in the video this morning hummingbirds were buzzing right by my head. As I stood less than 6 inches from a feeder two hummers sat and ate right beside my face. When one would leave another would take it's place. Others were on…
Thursday https://youtu.be/KXa99_c6-Ww It was 75°, when I walked out this morning onto the darkened back porch. The humidity was high settling like a blanket over the world. Once the sun began to brighten the neighborhood, I could see a light mist hugging the ground abd dew covering the grass and…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/GBHFlEXVJMs After I woke grandkid number one this morning, I stepped out on the back porch into what felt like a return to summer... The temperature was above 75°, and the humidity was pushing 100%. Off in the distance lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled softly. For the first bus…
Friday https://youtu.be/mazVlMjIDVc A person could get used to mornings starting out in the '50s. It's another gorgeous day on the back porch. Fall like temperatures and low humidity. What could be better for starting the last day of the week and going into a weekend. Wednesday's cold front almost swept…
Monday https://youtu.be/86W2GOTVkfc We're just waiting for the weather to change... Me and the hummingbirds... There are dozens swarming around the feeders front and back. They and I are waiting for the cold front the prognosticators are promising us in the next couple of days. Me... I'll enjoy sitting on the…
Thursday https://youtu.be/_471EK9YNqs Stepping out on the front porch this morning was one of those "Oh wow" moments. The temperature was a pleasant 69°. The humidity was a mehh... 93%. But, still it felt extremely pleasant. Even the light of the rising sun has a different look and feel to it.…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/C12iyMzql2o There's been a real change in the feeling of the world today... But it's only the weather. And though the humidity is at 97%, with the temperature at 72°. It feels like fall might actually be on the way. And looking at the prognosticators foretelling for the next…
Monday, Labor Day https://youtu.be/z8QJmdAeP3I Walking out on the back porch this morning it felt cooler. Though, truth be told at 78°, it's been cooler of a morning. But then I pulled up the humidity... And in the mid '80s that's enough of a difference to make it feel much cooler.…
Thursday https://youtu.be/ldw7w2wTBrA Stepping out on the back porch this morning after waking grandchild number one, it was 79° with a humidity of 97%... Summer is still hanging around. Now I sit here on the front porch after getting both grandchildren on the bus to school, listening to the birds and…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/b8ctGQR0tho Stepping out on the back porch this morning before first light it felt like I thought it should feel on a warm and humid last day of August. The temperature was 79°, cooler than normal was still quite warm. It felt humid, but there was no condensation on…
Thursday https://youtu.be/j99EFe07ZY8 When I walked out to the car this morning to run the kids to the end of the driveway for their buses the car wouldn't start. It had been acting like the battery was getting low and the starter was dragging so now it was time to do…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/Bq5y3n-v8SQ The kids are on the buses. The first load of laundry is in the washer. I'm sitting on the front porch watching the workday traffic go by. It's warm out right now, not oppressively. The humidity is high... Just not so high that there's condensation on the windows,…
Sunday It's Sunday morning quiet on the back porch this a.m. . Even the birds are keeping it quiet this morning. The temperature is 75°. Unusual, really unusual, for this time of the calendar. Even the humidity is down a notch at just 92%. I have to admit, that the…
Friday the 13th This would be an auspicious day for my grandfather. He always claimed that 13 was his lucky number. It always seemed to be good for him. Let's hope, it's good for me too... And good for you. We're having another of those cooler than normal August mornings.…
Thursday I'm finding it a bit unusual for the morning temperatures to be below 80 at this time of the year. I'm not complaining, Lord knows I hate the heat. And the humidity is high as always... Right now it's 78°,, and the humidity is 93%. Since it's Thursday, I…
The sounds of summer as the sun sets... Lawn mowers, swallows, chickens, train whistles, cicadas, hummingbirds.
Tuesday I was awakened by thunder in the distance. Once up the sun was out. It's 80° outside, 93% humidity. Just another midsummer's day. The tufted titmice are all over the feeders this morning. When they're not being spooked by a cardinal. My first load of laundry is in the…
Monday I was pulled from my slumber by the roar of lawn mowers in the yard. The lawn crew was busy at work early on this Monday morning. By the time they were done and gone It was 9:00 a.m. . According to the online weather folks, it's already 85°.…
Thursday There's still water standing in the low spots. When I took the garbage bins to the road yesterday evening water was standing across the driveway and the yard itself was squishy. So needless to say, the ground around here is saturated. It does make it nice for the waiting…
Monday It's cooler this morning. Only 77°. But the humidity is 96%. There's a breeze. So I'm sitting on the front porch listening to the Cardinals cheep, cheep, cheep. In the background the cicadas or adding their buzz... Each day has brought a decent amount of rain in the form…
Friday Once again the day starts off with blue skies. Almost cloudless blue skies. It's warm and it's humid. But it's not the summertime slap you in the face, oh my God hot it will be. Here's the morning read on the weather... Pretty much par for the course this…
Thursday The sun is out this morning, and it's warm, and it's humid. There's not much breeze blowing. But, the birds are singing. The cicadas haven't woken up really. And I just pulled the garbage bin to the road... The weather pattern this last week has been strange. Blue skies…
I decided to step out on the front porch this morning. Where the heat and humidity doesn't feel quite as oppressive... Though the numbers are pretty much the same on both sides of the house. It's 77° out this morning, the humidity is at 90%. And, the temperature expected to…
It's a bit warmer, but not quite so humid this morning. It's 83°, The humidity is just 77%. I thought I would walk out on the front porch this morning. I haven't done this in quite a while. Coffee muses on the front porch. But, with summer reaching it's early…
The temperature this morning is 74°. A very light, light rain is falling. From watching the radar the rain will be getting heavier through the morning. There is a frog singing to the rain somewhere close. And off in the distance the gentle sounds of roosters talking amongst themselves. The…
The coffeepot was still brewing when I came out... The back porch is pleasantly cool, the sun is bright, and the sky is clear. I have even turned the ceiling fans on... Way down low... Just to move the air around a little between breezes. My granddaughter brought me my…
It's another breezy overcast start to the day. The world is green. The coffee is hot. My wife is home again for another day. And I'm on the back porch listening to crows in the distance. This morning as I walked out, I heard a number of bluebirds singing in…
This is the kind of spring morning in Southeast Texas that you just want to cherish. Blue skies, low temperatures, hello humidity. The temperature this morning 63°. I can see the latest update to Android is going to take some getting used to {period} it seems as if suddenly you…
It definitely feels like summer this morning... Early summer at least. It was 76° when I woke up this morning. Humidity had fallen the double pained windows in the house. According to the prognosticators the projected high for the day is 86°. The really funny thing in the forecast is…
I already miss the cool morning temperature of yesterday. It's 71° outside this morning. It's going to be a hot one today. Looking at the satellite images and the radar images there's just a bit of moisture moving in off the gulf. As you can see in the images above…
It's just another overcast and cloudy sky day. It's warm, it's muggy, and the prognosticators are saying there's a good chance of rain coming with the cool front... That hopefully, will blow through sooner rather than later. As I was sitting out at the road waiting for the buses this…
Well, the rain's finally broken... Or maybe I should say the rains have moved east. The temperature outside is 73°. The driveway is still covered in water as it rained a bit overnight. As a matter of fact as I headed for bed last night I could hear the dull…
It's a comfortable 69° out this morning as a light rain falls. We are still under a flash flood watch or warning, I can never keep them straight. The Cardinals are singing now out in the rain. But other than that it's quiet. I can't even hear the murmur of…
Happy Birthday Caitlin Today marks the anniversary of the birth of our youngest child. Three decades and one year ago, or so my granddaughter informed me this morning, our last child was born. Happy birthday dear. This is another, in a long line of other, overcast and overwarm spring morning.…
It's a cool 61° on the back porch this morning. The Cardinals are chirping. The roosters around the corner are for lack of a better term, The spring flowers in the yard are fading. I guess I'm going to have to eventually fire up the mower and attack the high…
Earth Day It's another beautiful spring morning. The temperature is 54°. The sun is rising a little earlier each day. As we sit out waiting for the buses, a majority of the cars traveling the road no longer have their headlights on. I've also noticed it's quieter out these past…
Waiting for the bus this morning, it's chilly out... And windy... As you can see the thermometer on the car says it's 48°, and watching the bushes and the trees dance in the wind tells me I'm under dressed. But, the winds have swept the skies clear of clouds. The…
I sure have to love the sunrise this morning. Not only was it colorful, it was a nice, cool, 52°. Though lacking in my normal appreciation of the bird song as it was kind of quiet. Also lacking this morning was the North breeze that's been blowing since Sunday. Not…
It's a cool, cool mostly sunny morning. The pictures above were taken between buses. Now after the second bus it's bright outside and the sun is shining and it's 50°. When we first walked out it was 48°, cooler than I expected. On my agenda today is my second covid-19…
I'm a bit late this morning. But the wet misty weather has broken. And at 53°, the temperature is very spring like. We'll be back into our precursor to summer shortly. These past few days, I've noticed the Texas privet is blooming in the backyard in a manner and abundance…
Stepping out this morning it's definitely cooler, not that cool though, the thermometer reads 66°. The air is heavy with moisture. There's a fine mist settling and blowing everywhere. Enough of a breeze blows to shake the moisture off the tree leaves. The constant drip drip drip of water hitting…
I was surprised when I walked out this morning to find the temperature at 53°. It's been a couple of days since the " cool front " moved through, so I really wasn't expecting it. I don't even think the forecast called for it to be that low. Also, not…
The color green has over taken the world these days. With a little splashes of white and pink and blue and purple scattered around the yard. And there are splashes blue and red and brown and russet scattered amongst the trees. It's wildflowers scattered around the yard and birds scattered…
The air is heavy with moisture. There's a light fog hanging close to the ground. And a heavy dew has coated everything with big fat water droplets. As we said at the end of the driveway waiting for the bus, great big fat water droplets make patterns on the windshield.…
Well spring has truly arrived. I can see hints of green even around the mostly bare pecan trees. The morning temperature is 69°. The air is dry, there was no dew on the windows of the car this morning. The morning birdsong is everywhere around the yard. Hummingbirds flit like…
There's a layer of fog hanging in the air this morning. Which means, not a breeze is stirring. The temperature is already above 60°. And, it'll be heading much higher today. Sitting out waiting on the school bus, I saw three pairs of whistling ducks flying over. I haven't yet…
4.3.21 Just a tad bit warmer this morning at 57°. And the sun is hiding above the clouds. Though the forecast calls for more sun than clouds. It's still out this morning, nary a breeze stirring. There's a plane flying over, and a train whistling on the tracks. So even…
Another pleasantly cool spring morning, it's 52°. Just a light breeze blowing. An almost cloudless sky. Bright spring sunshine. Walking out on the back porch this morning I spooked Blue Jay on the feeder. Since it's a bit late, I didn't hear the morning bird song I've been hearing the…
April Fool's Day It's a bit nippy out this morning. 54° when I walked out. And breezy, very breezy... Winds out of the Northeast. But for once, the sky is clear. I think I've mentioned here before that this was my grandpa's Sewell's favorite day of the year. He enjoyed…
Once again the skies are overcast. The temperature is 69 degrees this morning. There's a chance of rain this afternoon. And the birds are filling the air with birdsong. Really for the first time in a long time I'm sitting in the rockers on the back porch... Watching springs bursting…
Mother nature decided to impress us with a cool morning today. Here at my place we started the morning at 48°, with a heavy dew on the ground. The winds that were blowing the past few days have settled. And as the daylightened, and I went out to the car…
It's another dark and overcast morning. We're starting out fairly warm at 71°. There's a chance of rain all weekend long... We'll just have to wait and see. Can't help but green up the browns of winter... As I was taking the photos above, I saw the first whistling ducks…
Wow, talk about a day with a split personality... There are clouds in the eastern half of the sky, but perfectly blue sky to the west. Yesterday's satellite image showed the same dichotomy but the clouds were east of Galveston Bay. Temperatures are a bit higher today, but only a…
Another bright, but cool, spring like morning. Two in a row. It's 48°, without cloud in the sky. A nice way to end a week. I got my notice yesterday to schedule my covid-19 vaccination. So, for right now, I'm scheduled for Monday morning. And I only have to drive…
Yesterday's front left the air crystal clear. Left the sky cloudless and blue. Left the temperature much more seasonable. And left bird watchers anticipating a fall out event. This morning's temperature is a pleasant 51°. According to windy.com, the wind is blowing out of the Northwest at 16 mph. I…
It's another hazy, foggy morning. The temperature is 68°. It looks like it ought to be cool, but it's not. But, foggy mornings are definitely quiet. I find myself this morning actually watching Morning Joe. Amazingly, we're still dealing with the aftermath of January the 6th... Insurrection day. Just amazing.…
While we still look like winter, the morning temperature of 68° lays false to that claim from my eyes. It's definitely shorts and tank top weather. And the AC is definitely on here in the house. It's not fighting the outside temperature so much as moderating the inside heat rise…
The ground is soggy, water standing everywhere from the overnight rain. We've slipped back into our normal winter weather. It's 49° outside. Not only does it have the feel of winter, it has the look too. Even the traffic on the road, as we waited for the buses, was moving…
It's foggy out this morning. And with the temperature at 70° with the forecast for it to fall until tomorrow morning, it should be an interesting and wet day. The kids have departed on their buses. I've started my third cup of coffee. The house is quiet. But, outside on…