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Spring Has Sprung
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ― William Shakespeare
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Pruning Time
I spent yesterday evening, pruning myriad branches in the back yard. I have no green thumb, no knowledge of correct pruning, nor any desire at all to do it the right way. All I know is there are too...
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Highway Wildflowers
We couldn’t pass these up yesterday. Who knows who long they’ll last?
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Homecoming Mum On Freckle-Faced Football Fan
Wearing mums to homecoming football games is huge tradition in Texas. Mums are expensive and heavy and attention-getting, and I recall hearing ones adorned with tiny metal footballs jangling on tassles...
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Abierto, Cerrado
Abierto Cerrado Looking at the hibiscus flowers this morning, I was reminded of the old Sesame Street sketch Abierto, Cerrado from the 1970s. What looks so shriveled and meh when it’s closed, becomes...
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What Wearing Two Belts Feels Like
One word: exhilarating. photo by Danny Lehman, “Then and Now” Perhaps I should have titled this Splendor in the Marigolds. I don’t think I’ve felt that level of pure bliss since the 1900s, if ever....
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Rain On The Hibiscus
This week marks the first week since spring (I’m gonna say April) that we did not exceed 80 degrees here in central Texas. And that’s why our hibiscus flowers are still blooming a week into November....
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Creation Isn’t Random Because Monkey Orchids
metapicture.com And I’m pretty certain they don’t evolve into human orchids.
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Torch Ginger
National Geographic, Nov 1949 At Honolulu airport, a young woman packs the heads of torch ginger in cellophane preservers. The article stated that “its stalk grows 3-6 ft high,” sometimes towering over...
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Bees Love Holly Blooms
I’m not exaggerating when I say the bees have been swarming our holly bushes by the hundreds, maybe thousands. As soon as we open the front door, we can hear their deafening buzz, trying to avoid...
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You’ll Forget The Sun In His Jealous Sky As We Walk In Fields Of Horehound
Horehound. It’s everywhere in central Texas. Field after field of purple horehounds (technically “black” horehound), presumably from our unusually ample downpours. What I find curious is that Google...
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