Native yucca blooming This native yucca is blooming on the corner below the NO Princess Palace. The roadsides and fields down here are not covered by bluebonnets and indian paint brush in the Spring like up in Central Texas – too far south and not enough rain. Any blooming flowers down here tend to be close to the bone and diminutive so this large yucca is quite a nice distraction from the norm. Continue reading Working and Dogs 
Headgear – M14/M1A for those bowling-ly inquisitive For a half done February, it is nice here in South Texas. The mesquites and assorted puckerbrush flora are showing tinges of green. The routine of late is a morning and evening walk followed by an hour or better of sittin’ out. Maybe coffee, maybe not. Vela Von chases the rubber ball incessantly. Dogs don’t ask for much. The kitchen is in large disarray from a Continue reading Self Sufficiency  |