Last night a cool front (at this time of the year, there are no more cold fronts in central Texas) blew through these parts, triggering a spectacular display of lightening. Farther south there were hail storms, damage from high winds, and widespread power outages, but all we got here were light shows and a little rain.
Thanks to the front, today was cloudy and cool. The clouds started breaking this evening around sundown. Consequently, we were treated to a breathtaking sunset - horizontal smears of purples, pinks, oranges, and golds, interspersed with gaps of blue and white. I wish I could paint, or photograph, or write well enough to do justice to such beauty.
We sat on the back porch, enjoying the cool temperatures, coos from the flocks of white-wing doves that frequent our feeders, and the soft calls of bobwhite quail (my personal favorite) in the distance. We even saw a pair of whistling tree ducks perched in a big old oak.
Top off with a few adult beverages, and the result was a mellow glow that reduced to insignificance thoughts of oil spills, idiots in congress and the White House, illegal immigrants, and the other nonsense that grinds us down every day. All that stuff will be there tomorrow, but for a few hours tonight it was reduced to meaningless insignificance while we reconnected as a family and enjoyed the truly wonderful things this life has to offer.
Mellow out...
The Wall.
22 hours ago
2 comments:
Unfortunately sitting on the front porch reminds me that I desperately need to mow. The back porch reveals the current priority - fence stretching and gate hanging for the cross section we have carved out for an equine. If we can just get that done... we could enjoy our birds, the cicadas singing and a few icy Shiners. Envying you-
Hey, I've got a pretty good backlog on my to-do list also. But I've lived down here long enough to have acquired some of that mañana attitude. The lawn and the fence will be there tomorrow...
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