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Archive for August, 2005

anybody know what this is?

Posted: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 in outside in the garden | 5 Comments »

I don’t know what this is. The plant just showed up in a shady area under some trees. Actually it may have been there quite a while but I didn’t notice it until it flowered.
I haven’t found it in any of my picture books yet. It sort of […]

rain lily day

Posted: Sunday, August 14th, 2005 in outside in the garden | 7 Comments »

A few days after the first rainstorms drench the parched August earth, the rain lilies begin showing up. Northerners may look for the first crocus in the snow but here it is these little flowers that signify the return of life. Soon the garden will bloom with flowers again.

take that, austin

Posted: Friday, August 12th, 2005 in current events | 3 Comments »

General Edwin Walker must be turning over in his grave. According to this study by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, Dallas is the most liberal city in Texas and ranked 32nd in the nation, above Madison, Wisconsin.
People don’t usually say Dallas and liberal in the same breath. […]

august garden

Posted: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005 in outside in the garden | 2 Comments »

What’s an August day without a sunflower.

missing blogroll

Posted: Monday, August 8th, 2005 in annoyances, blogging and technology | 4 Comments »

I just noticed that my “blogroll” has completely disappeared from my Links page. I don’t know when that happened; recently I know, because I use it almost every day to check on sites that don’t have feeds in Bloglines.
I’ll be investigating what is going on. It is from blogrolling.com. When […]

 

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