Autumn Equinox

Happy first day of Fall! Today is the autumn equinox, the “scientific” start of the season, if you will. This is a piece I wrote last year. I’ve polished it up a bit and decided to share it with you all. The picture is from November of five years ago. There is no way leaves […]

Nomenclature

April showers bring may flowers. Except in Texas where the weather does whatever it wants and all the maxims in the world won’t change it. Around where I live, flower season sometimes starts in February. Other years, the February scenery is pretty arctic. Either way, most of our beautiful native plants are blooming in March. […]