Bird’s Nest
Posted: April 19, 2010 Filed under: cottage garden, Joined at the Heart, Writers Write | Tags: change of seasons, cottage garden, family, garden, writers, writing 1 Comment »
A pair of cardinals built a nest in the bubble gum blossoms of our Old Blush rose. Their castle is a pastel fortress. Dad sings from the top of a pecan tree, while mom incubates. Yesterday, a mockingbird made a run at her, and Red swooped to the rescue. The mockingbird is bigger than the cardinal, but Red has love on his side.
All Dressed Up
Posted: January 3, 2010 Filed under: Writers Write | Tags: change of seasons, family, holiday lights, New Year's Eve, San Antonio Riverwalk 2 Comments »We enjoyed New Year’s Eve on the Riverwalk. The crowd was thick with tourists and Alamo Bowl participants, but we hit the town early and left before anyone got shoved into the canal.
We don’t have Currier and Ives snow scenes, but there’s nothing like a San Antonio Christmas. The river is a jewel with lights twinkling from every cyprus tree. They’re on from just after Thanksgiving until a week after New Year’s. Then, the canals are drained and cleaned. I’ve heard the workers find thousands of cellphones, car-keys, assorted sunglasses in the muck before they re-open the flood gates.
We were lucky to have good weather. The afternoon high was 76°. The evening was balmy until a cold front blew in another annual rite, mountain juniper pollen.
As always, click on any photo to see a larger view.
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- The Texas Tech Band
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- OU Football on TV
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- Bacon took this one.
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- Pretty Lights
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- Lights on Casa Rio
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- Sisters
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- The Alamo
Dog Daze
Posted: September 9, 2009 Filed under: A Zany Life, Goals, Housekeeping, Writers Write | Tags: change of seasons, family, garden, tomatoes, writers, writing Leave a comment »
Lilly Tang frolics among the wildflowers in the Pecos Wilderness.
It’s the long end of summer. Here are a few random notes about what is going on in my life.
- I finished the rewrite. The manuscript has a new working title, Schooled. My job now is to go through the manuscript a section at a time, fixing duplicated words and typos. It will take every waking minute of the next ten days to finish before The Breakout Novel Intensive Workshop.
- Cherry has been sick for five days. We visited the pediatrician yesterday. At least Cherry doesn’t have the Swine Flu. So for now, we’re in wait-it-out mode.
- I have a car! BBC1 fixed Bacon’s truck when all the mechanics in town said it couldn’t be fixed.
- Rain. We have rain. I planted tomatoes. The squirrels dug them up. I replanted them. They dug them up again. I replanted, again. The only thing proved is I can be as consistent as a squirrel.
