It’s raining tonight in San Antonio. I love the sound. It’s a light rain, gentle. And the smell is nice. Something soft and gentle and difficult to define. San Antonio is a city filled with plants. You don’t really smell the plants. But you also don’t smell hard concrete the way you do in some […]
The swallows are fighting. They are aerial fighters. They streak through air side by side and body slam each other mid flight into walls. There are harsh thumps when a body slammed swallow hits a wall. They are not kidding around. They are seriously trying to hurt each other. No one has hit the ground […]
Year of the Fire Horse! In February, the world leaves the Year of the Wood Snake and enters to the Year of the Fire Horse. The snake year is about shedding the unneeded. Sometimes painfully. What the universe seems to think people do not need is not always what people want to give up. The […]
Swallows live in the building I have just moved into. There are three nests over the balcony. (This makes placing the little camp chairs I have out there a judicious choice mainly dictated by spots that are not directly under Swallow spots.) The swallows like some of the pipes that run through the really high […]
I saw the first baby ducks of the season today. Well probably not of all spring, but of my spring, they were definitely the first baby ducks. There were four of them on the water with their mom duck, and they were very fluffy and cute as hell, all shades of pale yellow and little […]
Forever, I keep hearing, ducks want frozen peas. It’s winter, it’s cold, food for wild animals is slight, I purchase frozen peas. And toss them out for the ducks. Nada. Nothing. The ducks sit, and give me the eye. “We’ll wait till the current brings those device of the devil frozen peas to us and […]
Twenty years. Holy fuck. Twenty years. Blogging. I was going all the way back and remembering… January 2006. My Glass Heart So. It is 2006. A bright new shiny year. Full of potential. In a bright new shiny apartment. No more crazy landlords. No more crazy roommates. Just me. The bed. The desk. I sold […]
Okay I am sort of leery of snakes in general so Year of the Snake for me is problematic but that is because I am a Westerner steeped in snake myths that paint snakes in a very bad light.
I just watched The Fall Guy (yes I know I am way behind on movies) and in addition to being gobsmacked again by chiseled Ryan Gosling (that is always confusing to me, it’s like when hobbits got good looking, my brain gets confused computing things like that) there is the cutest dog in the world […]
The white heron visited yesterday. It is unusual to see the white heron in the little River Walk stream when it is full. Usually the beautiful birds visit when the stream has been partially drained and the water is low. I think of it as a White Heron Christmas now. That is not to say […]