Monthly Archives: July 2003

Garden Spot

I updated my blogroll with a new site for Garden Spot. It is the first blog I’ve seen that is using TypePad. Very coo…

smilax

Every year the back of our property gets a little more wild. Partly this is due to my laziness, but I rationalize it in many…

the cast iron forest

As the traveler proceeded westward across the Blackland Prairie in the nineteenth century he encountered a dense fore…

independence weekend

We celebrated the Fourth in traditional fashion. In the morning we walked a couple blocks over to Bluffview where the ne…

i was thinking today about ivan

In an earlier life I rented a small duplex in the Montrose section of Houston. My companion during much of this time was a f…