a post that isn't about work or art or food

We didn't get any rain last Wednesday after all, but we did get some Thursday night. I woke up to lots of rumbling out there but never heard the rain. Turns out it was barely enough to get the ground wet.

My neighbor and his son built a huge burn pile last Friday. He cuts my next door neighbor's yard and he finally got tired of ducking under all the low hanging branches and took his machete and started hacking away. The neighbor whose yard it is was out the next morning trying to torch it. Mostly all he got was a column of smoke because it's all still green and it quickly died out. Hard to tell from the picture but that pile is taller than an average sized man.

I think I've mentioned that I am not an early riser and this morning I slept even later than usual waking only when the pill alarm for my afib meds went off but I was up early enough the other morning to see the glass totems lit up by the red orange rising sun.

I had thought I would get outside and take care of some of the yard work this weekend that's been piling up, but Sunday I'm going with my daughter to Austin to pick up Autumn and taking her to San Antonio to stay with her sister Jade until Autumn leaves for Ecuador for her semester studying abroad and apparently all I'm doing on Saturday is this...

There was a little excitement leaving yoga class at Hesed House on Thursday. A trailer came unhitched from the truck pulling it and it rolled back and into a light pole breaking the pole. Fortunately, it was caught by some other lines and didn't come crashing to the ground breaking and whipping hot wires into the foliage around it.

As mentioned above, I joined my daughter on the road trip on Sunday to Austin and San Antonio and back home. Unknown to me until we got to Austin was that we were meeting up with my nephew and his wife and their toddler as well as my sister-in-law in town from Dallas and, of course, Autumn, for brunch/lunch, an unexpected pleasant surprise. And then we gathered the rest of Autumn's things and drove to San Antonio and had a nice long visit with Jade and we left both girls about 6:30 and headed home. Did I take a single picture? No, I did not. I did have a good time spending the day with Sarah, something that happens rarely, she is so busy with work and the continued building going on on their property and the management of her family. She and Mike had a year of an empty nest and now their youngest is back living with them as well as their oldest and his pregnant girlfriend and their two big dogs. So now they have 5 adults and a baby on the way, four dogs, and four cats living in their 3 bedroom house. Hence the plans for expansion.

My zinnias finally started blooming, the ones that survived anyway but the orange cosmos still has not beyond a handful of flowers. Here's a few random shots of what's blooming.

morning glory bush

yellow bells aka esperanza aka tecoma stans

milkweed

porterweed

phlox