Even though most of Texas is still in a drought, there are local sites where we can go for some relief, like the Zilker Botanical Garden.
Lovely waterfall
Fronds, green and cool
A beautiful rose
Pond turtle
Drought Relief
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Cactus and Clear Sky
Oh, what a difference a clear sky makes.
Blue skies smiling at me . . .
Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’
Tuesday we recorded summer’s first 100 degree day at the house. This definitely turns our minds to ideas on how to keep cool.
A watermelon from a friend’s garden.
I love cold watermelon.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s good for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
What we want is shade and lots of it.
Shade, shade and more shade.
Too hot to even run up a tree
Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’
Cool July Morning
Sunrise on this cool July morning: it was 69 degrees. So far the temperature has stayed under 100 degrees this summer; very unusual.
Sunrise
Fiction Friday: From Now On
Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Kelly Sands
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Charlie’s mirror shows him a teenage boy with disheveled hair, mismatched shirt and pants, scuffed shoes, worn jacket. I’ll save my tips and change that, he thinks.
Leaving the house, he looks up at the cloud cover, smiling. The early cold front dropped the temperatures noticeably. His uncle called, asking him to play his guitar on the café patio with the fire pit. “I need something extra to keep customers happy,” his uncle said.
Humming as he walks to his first gig, Charlie deems the clouds lucky instead of gloomy, and decides to introduce himself as Charles from now on.
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Friday Fictioneers: Write a 100-word story based on the photo prompt.
To read other stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
It's a long story ... 