Appalachian Mountain Dreams

A Sunday in Early Spring

Weather – Again I sit here listening to the avian chorus. The predominate notes coming from Redbirds this morning. An occasional percussive note being introduced by a woodpecker here and there. I am waiting for the mockingbird (speak of the devil), there’s one now. I am beginning to hear crows and hawks in the distance. The sun hasn’t broken through

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TGIF – Week 2770

Photo Friday – Heat Taken in the desert outside of Las Vegas. Hot it is. Weather Report – Yesterday ended very clear and seasonably warm(?). The temperature ended up around 76 by the time I got home from work. Even as the sun set, water still stands from all the rain we had in the past 4 days. Last night

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Thursday Daybreak

Weather Report – In a word…Quite. I left work yesterday a bit early to make my way home between lines of heavy thunderstorms. I managed to get from one place to the other without getting wet going to and from the car. Had I been just minutes slower at either end of the journey it would have been a “hole

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The Thunder Rolls

Pardon me for borrowing the lyric Garth. Weather Report Last night it rolled…Over and over again. Distant thunder, thunder overhead, I think I even heard thunder rolling out from under the bed. It really wasn’t the loud thunder of the other day, but it seemed much more continuous. Then again, maybe I was just dreaming. Anyway the day is starting

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Tuesday Coffee Muses

Weather Report It’s much quieter this morning even though the weather prognosticators keep warning us that the chance of thunderstorms continues. The temperatures are decidedly springlike. I see from the morning email that the BR mountains are starting of cold but warming up nicely. Welcome to the start of spring everyone. Zilker Garden Festival I exchanged emails with Felder Rushing

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The Middlewesterner

This paragraph from Tom Montag really hit me between the eyes. I have been having the same thoughts pretty regular these days as I look in the mirror of a morning. It’s not that I look that much like dad…But their is enough of a resemblance to cause me to remember bits and pieces. A fellow starts out to become

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