Our crabapple has burst into song.
Forsythia season
It’s forsythia season. It seems to always bloom during spring break. The first ones in town came out about two weeks ago. Ours started blooming about a week ago.
Grape hyacinths
When I was a youngster, we had grape hyacinths growing in the front yard, in front of the rose bush with tiny pink roses. My mom loved flowers and plants and we had an incredible back yard, which was a garden of green, full of shrubbery and flowers and some pretty good hideout places for …
Early bloomers
Friday afternoon, I noticed that the daffodils on the south side of the house were breaking open.
Springtime in January
Go back to sleep, daffodils, it’s only fake spring, not real spring. And, it’s a contraily kind of a day: 7 second video… Contrails. At 12:30 p.m., it’s 62 and mostly clear. Heading up to 69 today.
Earthquakes
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: EARTHQUAKES Here in Kansas we’re well acquainted with the Fujita scale, and now we are learning the drama, but not yet the limits, of the Richter scale. Earthquakes, aftershocks, seismic waves. Until earlier this month, these were things that happened to people on other …
Enjoying Autumn
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: ENJOYING AUTUMN Lying awake in bed at night, I listen to the trains pass through town. I can hear each one rumble into the city limits, its whistle blowing every few seconds as the locomotive approaches crossroads. It amazes me how our ears can discern …
Sesquicenteniflower
Colorado aspens
No, I don’t know…
… what this plant is. September, Morris County.
Garden of the Gods
One of our first stops in Colorado was Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs. Well, we almost didn’t stop because there were so many people there – no parking places. It was Labor Day Sunday and everyone was getting in their last weekend of the summer in. Anyway, we didn’t get to stop at …