It reminded me of an afternoon Manila, Philippines monsoon rain. The kind of deluge that happens so fast you have to balance a bamboo rucksack on your shoulder while walking with flip flops in three feet of street water. That really did happen to me once upon a time. But here in Fayetteville, Texas it wasn’t initially the rain itself that was
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I just couldn’t resist using the image above to initiate this article. Ever since I took the shot I have been laughing at what first came to mind: the caption says it all. The piece itself begins……………………………now, and includes another picture of the Fab Goat4 in a different setting. It is five- thirty in the morning. The wind is howling
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My neighbor’s goats – focused by one tough ram, Dad – are making a bee line for something. I am not sure what. Note though who brings up the rear: Junior. He has grown to about half-size of his old man, and is beginning to feel his oats. But Pop set him straight on who is the boss: the little guy received Class
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If you want to see something majestic it is a deer on the run. Late yesterday afternoon I was communing with cows at my neighbor’s fence. We are such good friends that the animals come over and say hello when they see me. Of course, the handful of clean, green grass that one now expects – and gets – has nothing
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Here are three of my neighbors caught this cool fall morning getting ready for a tough day at work. By the time it took me to take this image and caption it they were up and about having their fresh green breakfast. Yum.
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Begin Part II of II – Wednesday evening, 8 October, 2014 It was about nine o’clock and completely dark outside. Inside I turned on my radio and began listening to Clyde Lewis’ Ground Zero program. Before I settled in to hear this stimulating mix of government conspiracies, world domination plots, UFO sightings and numerology, I went back outside to see
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[This is a continuation of the article posted around mid-day on 8 October. You might want to read that first. The events described below – hard to believe – are true and took place later, between five and ten o-clock p.m. that same day.] It was another hot, humid afternoon in South Central Texas. I went outside to see how
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I returned home from a few days of road travel and quickly checked to see if the shack was okay, it was. And I expected to see my three stalwart spiders still hanging on their respective webs; Dos and Tres were, but the oldest of the three – Uno – was nowhere to be found. It sounds strange to be
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It started out as a simple morning ride down a pastoral road. Wait, what is that over there to the left? It’s a loose dog. His tongue is hanging; he’s racing frantically along the road going in the opposite direction. Am I going to callously drive by an opportunity to save an abandoned canine? I could at least take him
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Since late spring I have had the good fortune to observe three yellow garden spiders living here. All three – females – hang on their webs upside down, and outside; but each does this against window glass in separate locations. It’s interesting to see they all selected a similar spot to take up residence. I’ve named them Spider Uno, Spider
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