It’s snowing yellow leaves today. They pour down first gently, then spin into eddies, skittering down the street. The brittle droppings of oak and pecan and hackberry accrue into drifts of yellow along the curb until another gust of wind scatters them to the four corners of the county.
Winter’s on its way.
I’m spared the chore […]
It’s been such a warm and glorious autumn in McKinney this year. We’ve had almost no rain, which isn’t good, but I have been enjoying the sunny days tremendously. One night there was a dusting of frost in a few places, but the days remain balmy. Every few days I wonder how much longer it […]
Squirrel with pecan. I’ve heard people saying it’s going to be a cold winter in North Texas, but really, Senor Squirrel, is that any excuse to stuff your face this way? And Dude, your oral hygiene sucks. Brush those teeth once in a while. Eeeeew!
It’s a holiday weekend, but it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like disaster waiting to happen. It’s hurricane season, and New Orleans residents are evacuating as Category 4 “Gustav” bears unswervingly toward them. Emergency services in North Texas are in 24 hour operating mode. Thirty thousand individually packaged meals are stacked in readiness, shelters […]
Man it’s a hot one
Like seven inches from the midday sun
Santana: “Smooth”
another day of 100-plus temperatures, and I’m digging my collages out of the ancient history archives again. Overtime at work is pushing my bedtime up to about 2 a.m. and the painters decided to start scraping the paint off the […]
variation on a sketch by Harry Clarke, 1919.
aaaaahhh. it’s good to be the queen of my little domain. Now that summer crunch is over I can get back to subjugating all the machinery to MY particular specifications. No catering to the anal whims of my testosterone-laced cohorts. I can get back to what I like most about being the only person on […]
I take Camus out for a walk at dusk. The temperature has just fallen below 90 degrees but it’s not a comfortable 88 or 89. The humidity is so thick I think it’s pelting me with pinprick drops of rain until I realize it’s a tree pissing on me. I didn’t know for the longest […]