prairie point

Another book I read while I was recuperating was Kurt Vonnegut’s latest, A Man Without a Country, It’s really a collection of short little essays. I wish I could hear him read them because they are so personal and all written in the first person.
Mostly they are pretty pessimistic. It sounds like Vonnegut’s about given […]

I don’t know if John Graves is well-known outside Texas or not, but down here he has been kind of a minor deity of sorts ever since his book Goodbye to a River was published in the sixties. That book is a story of a canoe trip down the Brazos River with lots of commentary […]

I’ve probably mentioned before that I’ve been having a problem lately with a kidney stone. Wednesday I had a surgical procedure called “lithotripsy” where they blasted me with shock waves to break up the stone. Since then I have mostly been lying around in sunny spots with a cat sitting on my chest […]

I was surprised to see the Ducher has several buds and one fully opened blossom. It was so rainy this weekend that I did not get a chance to even get outside much less play in the garden. Even this afternoon it is rather soggy.
We already have lots of blooms on the Rouletti […]

We are getting lots of rain this weekend. Spoiled our plans for a cookout on the deck, but if that’s what it takes to get the rain we will be glad to schedule lots more.
The drought has made everyone think this will be a poor year for wildflowers along the highways. I don’t […]