scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
We had a pumpkin decorating contest at work. The Pirate and the Screamer were my personal favorites though neither one received recog-nition.
Most of us were puzzled by the judges’ decisions. It’s always interesting to see how people will interpret an “assignment” like this but the reaction to the artist’s effort is often more curious […]
I’ve been inspired by Hanna and Maria to be braver about telling my own story, so in that vein, here are 20 random things about me:
I’ve been a vegetarian for ten years.
I never get tired of listening to the Beatles or to Mozart.
I love detective stories.
I’ve battled clinical depression for most of my life.
I’m tone […]
Fall has FINALLY arrived. The monarchs have moved on. The sidewalks are littered with acorns, pecans, and sundry tree droppings. After two months of watching cold fronts being deflected by our unnaturally hot dry weather a front finally burst through to North Texas earlier this week. We have had to turn the furnace on the […]
After five years in this dingy old faux-ranch house I decided I couldn’t stand the carpet in the living area any longer. The key word to describe these houses is “DARK”. The walls of this room are paneled in wood so dark it makes the fireplace the lightest part of the room. I’ve put at […]
My spirits have lifted a bit this week with the coming of the butterflies. We are lucky to be on the flight path the monarchs take each year as they journey to Mexico for the winter and many of them stop here to snack & rest on their way. One of my two abelia shrubs […]
OK, the tv show “LOST” is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
I was looking through some boxes of stuff and found this image: a reproduction of an old Spanish/Gypsy tarot card and it struck me that the writers of “LOST” might have got inspiration from it. I found two of Hurley’s numbers: there are 15 […]
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