Our brutal Texas summer is just about here. I offer you some lovely shade, in anticipation.
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas
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Category Archives: Weather
All Hail
A storm came through this morning; the leading edge just after 7:00 a.m. (It inspired my poem for today, No Escape.) Temperatures dropped 30 degrees and the wind was fierce. A little after 10:00 a.m., the rain started. And then the hail.
Unfortunately for me, I was driving through the hail storm. The impact sounded like gun shots. There was no place for me to take cover. I really thought my windshield was in danger of breaking, the hail was coming down with such force. There was so much of it, the roads were totally covered in white.
This is the only photo I took, when we stopped for lunch about an hour after the hail storm ended.
Hail and more hail
No Escape
Temperatures drop
Screaming wind slashes the earth
For some, no escape
No escape this time
NaPoWriMo Day 14
Wrong Again
Recently I lamented that a hard, late freeze would kill all the flowers on our two peach trees, preventing any kind of peach crop this year.
Wrong again!
We have lots of peaches! Somehow they survived the two or three nights of temperatures in the 20s and the peaches are emerging. There might even be enough for the birds and to have a few left over for us. Time will tell.
Yes, we have peaches!
Cold and Rainy Race
Cold and rainy won’t keep us out
Crossing the finish line is what it’s about
Twelve thousand of our closest friends
Keep us company going around the bend
Walking just over two hours is a good pace
While we chat during the Capitol 10K race
We ran a marathon a long time ago
Now it’s just for fun, personal records we’ve let go
Musicians play for us on our way
And volunteers give us water keeping thirst at bay
It was cold, rainy and it was fun
Even though we were so far back we never heard the starting gun
(My placement was 11,610 of 11,992 finishers. Smokin’!!)
NaPoWriMo Day 6 (No one said it had to be good poetry.)
Race Starts Here
Took us almost 13 minutes to get to the start line after the race started
Almost 12,000 of our closest friends
Downhill, but uphill followed
Musicians played for us
Drummers with a beat
Now I want a pink cowboy hat
Even the race fans trained!
Ta-da! We made it!
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