scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
When you set out for Ithaka
ask that your way be long,
full of adventure, full of instruction.
—- Constantine P Cavafy, 1911
One of my daily rituals at work is to listen to Garrison Keillor’s podcast, The Writer’s Almanac. I enjoy the historical and biographical trivia about artists, many whom I’d never heard of before listening.
Each day the […]
This is “Gertrude Jekyll”, an old English rose from David Austin, one of the latest additions to our back yard. It smells wonderful! I’m posting this for the oh, so creative Hanna to help her celebrate the fourth birthday of her blog. I know she loves pink!
This is one of two okra seedlings I planted yesterday. One of my personal goals this year is grow something I can eat. This is harder than it may sound as I have a tendency to inadvertently kill most things that I plant. I also planted an Italian flat-leaf parsley plant. I am hoping at […]
Shakaar is the black panther who lives with my friends. We spent three weeks of our recent exile at their house and got to know this unusual feline. You have to watch yourself around Shakaar. Resist that impulse to reach out and stroke that velvet fur or you may find your hand and your pride […]
I don’t much like living in a construction zone. I hear the carpenters’ trucks pull up to the curb outside my bedroom window about 7:45 a.m. and I know it’s no use to try to catch a few more minutes of sleep. Within just a few minutes the two brothers in the white pickup are […]
yeah, I know it’s a boring picture. We spent the last two weeks of exile in a local motel. Our window looked out onto a Jeep dealership and we spent a lot of time watching cars coming in and out of a service bay, and employees taking smoke breaks next to it. This was accompanied […]
I thought I was never gonna get out of that time warp. It’s been six weeks since I’ve had internet access except at work. Six weeks since I’ve been able to access Facebook, MySpace, or my own blog. Whew! I don’t want to try that again for awhile.
It was still winter six weeks ago […]
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