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 [...]
Saturday, February 11, 2012
When we got out of the car, Trudy want into the house, and I went around the side to drop some bottles into the recycling bin. There was a hooting somewhere in the back. I mean a real hoo-hoo-hoo hooting. The kind of clichéd owl sound you might hear on a cartoon. I stood silently, listening [...]
As I sat at my desk, I looked out the window. A Squirrel was out there, sitting on the old Ash tree stump, bushy tail curled once, curled twice, eating a found pecan. A Monarch fluttered among the yellow Cowpen Daisy blossoms. Lesser Goldfinches splashed in the birdbaths sitting on the ground beneath the Lacey Oak. [...]
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 [...]
A breeze blew over the bed early this morning. We woke up and scooted closer together to stay warm. The 100+ days and 90+ nights are evidently finally gone, just in time for October. The Cowpen Daisies are blooming and filled with bees. A volunteer Morning Glory that I’ve been nurturing thru the parched summer (a [...]
And so we went outside, the dog and I. We went outside, he thinking we were going for a walk, I to sit on the bench. The sun had just disappeared behind the trees in the west, and the temperature was down to a cool 99 degrees. We were sitting there, the dog on my [...]
There’s a monkey in the tree over there. Hanging from the branches. Swinging from limb to limb. Oh … my mistake. It’s a squirrel taunting our dog. There’s a clown on the bench outside. Hopping and rolling. Playing with a round ball. Trying to eat it. Oh … my mistake. It’s a grackle with a [...]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Jupiter has been rising with the full harvest moon lately while Venus sets with the sun. The rain has been falling. The gound is wonderfully soft to walk upon. The grass has been growing. And the Zexmenia. And the Russian Sage. And the Wright’s Skullcap. And the Oak trees. And… And ants are herding aphids [...]
Let’s go for a walk in the back. I’ll show you around and tell you some stories. [Click on the photos for bigger images. This is going to take a while. If you're busy, feel free to leave at anytime.] Let’s start on the patio. Here’s our little pond. It’s in a 3′ cattle tank [...]
I really need to go out and run with the dog — go out now before it’s too late and the 100-degree temperatures set upon us again. But first I need to tell you a short story… “Do you think people walking by notice our flowers?” Trudy asked the other day. People walk by sometimes, [...]
