Why Sunshine Feels So Good

I spent a half hour on the back porch, sipping tea, and watching the birds tussle over a spot on the feeders, this afternoon, as the temperature climbed to 100 once again.  It’s one of my favorite things to do.  From my place in the shade, the bright sunshine, cloudless sky and birds can be so relaxing and uplifting.

Texas Loves Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson loves what he does and his fans love him for what he is, a weathered old cowboy with a nasal twang, who makes some really good music on a beat up old guitar with a hole in it, and only recently cut off his long gray braids. Alex Mitchell once described him as a frog prince who’d rather stay a frog.

But not so far underneath that redneck, outlaw image lies

A Summer Back Porch Smoothie

Many places in Texas broke records in high temperatures yesterday.  The Weather Channel explained that such high temperatures so early in the summer are due to the jet stream staying toward the north.  The lazy screeching of locusts and heat waves rising from the dry fields remind me of the sleepy, dusty days of August.

Those days aren't so bad when you can sit on the back porch with a cold drink and just be lazy.