1. Confusion came with warm weather and rain. Lantana and Lilies. Cowpen and Four Nerve and Blackfoot Daisies. Salvia and Spiderwort and Prairie Verbena. Ten-petal Anemone and Agarita and Echinacae. Texas Redbud. They all blossomed early, and the yard has exploded in purples and yellows and whites. 2. There is a school girl who walks by our house [...]
The dogs walked around the yard a bit, sniffed the balmy air and went back inside. It was dark. I couldn’t see my feet in the shadows. I stood there in the warm night letting my eyes adjust. A breeze came up. It blew thru the branches of the pine tree and made that lonesome [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sunrise 3 Your days are dull and pass uneventfully. With the days of your youth far behind you and your days of shining dreams dashed by the years, you find it hard to smile. You can’t jump for joy, because there is so little to jump over. You live your life with a cloud hanging over [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sunrise 2 “What’s that?” the boy asked his father. There was a tremble in his voice. The jet was roaring, and their seats where shaking as they raced down the runway. “We’re taking off,” his dad said, nodding to the window. “Watch.” The boy turned and put his nose to the window. White lines on [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sunrise 1 It is bright out there. Yellow sun and shining lakes. Sunrise from the air.
1. Last Night Something woke us in the middle of the night. Strange sounds outside. A muffled swooshing-swishing. We sat up, listening intently but seeing nothing in the dark. “Is that rain?” We dashed to the door and looked out. Indeed it was rain. Beating hard on the roof. Gushing out the downspouts. It came in [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
The fair and industrious Trudy is painting, again. One by one, the interior walls are falling to her brush. “Can you deal with Guinness?” she asked me. “He barking right in my ear while I paint.” So I called his name using the magic word “walk” and picked up his leash, and we headed out [...]
Monday, September 5, 2011
The front and back doors are open. A cool 85 degree morning breeze is blowing thru the living room—but not for long. The sun is rising above the trees in the east, and the temperature is climbing quickly as the shade is disappears. We’ll be shutting the doors soon. The Hummingbirds have been frisky. They [...]
In the morning they come. Before the sun climbs over the roof of the house. While the cool 82 degrees of morning remain. Before the heat begins to bake the dust. They come for a drink. First come the Lesser Goldfinches. They perch on the Coneflowers and pick at the dry seed heads and flit [...]
“You decided to work on the hottest day?” John asked. I didn’t know it was the hottest day, but there was no doubt it was toasty. I set down the wheelbarrow. “How hot did it get?” I asked. “110.” That was yesterday. Today it got up to 112. As the sun set behind the trees [...]
