scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
The acorns have ceased their relentless attacks. They’ve been raining down on us every time we go out the back door as the oak trees’ mounted their last protest against the changing weather. Even Phoebe was ducking her head every time something whoosed past. Now the trees are dropping their leaves as autumn rushes toward […]
This is the front door of a bed-and-breakfast, still in halloween regalia, lace-mistakethat’s up for sale about six blocks from our house. I love the front door of this house, probably because the back door to my house has some of the very same detailing that dates it to about 1890. The details include the […]
It was a beautiful day yesterday, but I have so many chores around the house I had to take a day off from cemeteries. So here’s a shot from Warden Cemetery, my current transcription project. I often see these metal funeral home markers stuck in the ground next to a gravestone, which is nice, because […]
Two of three caterpillars that were defoliating my mom’s penta plants yesterday. I think they will become swallowtail butterflies. The green ones will be predominately black and the brown one will be yellow (I think). Today the brown one has disappeared. One of the green ones is still feeding voraciously and the second one is […]
You see them on a long lonely stretch of highway, or near an exit ramp of a city freeway, or just beyond the sidewalk of a busy intersection; roadside memorials erected for someone who died on that spot. It’s an old Latin tradition, though I’m not sure if it dates from old Mexico or from […]
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