At precisely the time when Black Dub was supposed to start, the guy in front of me moved stood up. He looked down at his girlfriend and up at the stage and started hooting, “Come on, guys! It’s time to start!” And at that very moment, the band came out. They began playing and singing, and the […]
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ACL Saturday
Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 10:59 PM (-06:00)
An airplane is flying overhead pulling a banner advertising a Snowball Fest in Colorado in March. The two women standing in front of me are now sitting down studying tomorrows festival lineup. Some people to my left are standing next to me in a circle laughing and talking and drinking beers. There are lines at […]
One or the Other
Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 09:45 PM (-06:00)
So I set up my chair when I get to ACL. I set up my chair far back from the AMD stage, where I can sit in middle-aged comfort and look around and take out my notebook and jot a few notes while I wait for the music to start. And then the skies darken. […]
Special Rocks
Tue, 13 Sep 2011, 09:12 PM (-06:00)
“So … are those special rocks?” James asked after we had been talking a while. Trudy laughed. I smiled and looked down at my hands that were holding five rocks roughly half the size of a baseball each. It’s a funny thing about the soccer fields, I explained. The rocks just come up out of […]
Lost Pines
Wed, 7 Sep 2011, 11:12 PM (-06:00)
Bastrop State Park is gone. Close to a thousand homes are gone. People have died. As of this afternoon, they only had the fire partially contained. This is really, really bad. On Tuesday I drove to Houston which normally takes me thru Bastrop. The photo above is a view of the city as you come […]
GNP 275
Mon, 5 Sep 2011, 06:41 PM (-06:00)
She groaned out loud and hit the steering wheel with her hands—not typical Trudy. “What?” I asked. I thought we had forgotten something. “I can’t believe … that lady … with wind like this and the fires … that lady just flicked her ashes out her car window.” The light turned green. The lady went […]
Looking for the Horsemen
Mon, 5 Sep 2011, 11:25 AM (-06:00)
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 […]
Bird Succession
Tue, 30 Aug 2011, 10:10 PM (-06:00)
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 […]
The Path Unwinding
Mon, 29 Aug 2011, 07:48 PM (-06:00)
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 […]
The Hottest Day
Sun, 28 Aug 2011, 09:58 PM (-06:00)
“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 […]