Thanks to daylight saving time, I’ve been able to work in the garden after dinner. But I’m finding it hard to get anything done when the light gets caught in the new green leaves on the live oaks (Quercus fusiformis) and the Texas persimmon (Diospyros texana) below. It’s so beautiful.
Here’s a dog’s-eye view of the new sunburst path around the stock-tank pond, with the setting sun streaming through the tree trunks.
In the lower garden, the light shines through both pink flowers and unfurling leaves on the Mexican buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa).
All trees mentioned are native to central Texas, and all were inherited with the garden, although I suspect they were not planted by human hand since they are growing up through slabs of limestone. I feel lucky to be their caretaker for a while.
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Fat, fluffy snowflakes have quieted the garden and outlined the trees.
After our super hot summer, lengthy drought, and record cold temperatures over the past year, I don’t know why this surprises me. But it does.
According to Mark Lisheron at Statesman.com, it has snowed in Austin on just six days in the past decade.
Today, make it seven.
It’s really beautiful, especially on the cacti and succulents.
I’m not worried about the plants this time because everything tender has already been zapped by our earlier record cold, and it’s not that cold today, only 34 F (1.1 C).
Looking across the street, you can see it’s really coming down. I hope they’ll dismiss school early so my kids can enjoy this rare sight.
Update: We ended up receiving 1.3 inches of snow in northwest Austin, the most accumulation since the Valentine’s Day snow of 2004.
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Our summer vacation this year is happening a lot closer to home than the Magical History Tour of last summer. Specifically, the back-yard pool. But while in Houston this weekend, visiting my sister and her family, we took a day trip to Galveston to give the kids a day at the beach.
After hours of boogie boarding in the waves and too much sun, we took a break for shrimp po-boys, then headed back to the shore for a little beachcombing as the setting sun turned the sky orange.
A day at the beach—heat, sand, sunburn, and all—is a kid’s ideal vacation. I still prefer the cool of the mountains, but an evening stroll in the surf, looking for shells, is pretty sweet too.
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A spectacular sunset yesterday colored the sky lemon and tangerine and silhouetted the live oaks in our back yard. What a beautiful beginning for the month of March.
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