Karmic-Dragonfly

I was very happy to get downtown to the river last weekend. I think this is my favorite photo. To me the clouded, weak sun looks vaguely like descriptions in SciFi novels where a sun is far from a planet. And I like the shape of the rock I'm standing on -- looks vaguely to me like a tortoise!


And got a heron shot --



So the tree is changing as I transition to LED lights. This year, it is VERY pink 😁. And I'm okay with that -- it's very festive!

Down to the Texas Beach trail yesterday. I hadn't been there in a good while! It was nice being there, and it was mostly empty until towards the end of my walk when more folks started showing up.


Saw a Mourning Cloak butterfly -- I'm not sure what their host plant it, but I have only seen one of these at my house in all the years I've been here. So it was nice to see one at the river!

This first Monday of Sabbatical has been pretty nice. I slept in until 7...then breakfast....a walk at Texas Beach...and now lunch & a glass of wine while reading on the porch. It's supposed to start raining this evening, so I'm picturing a movie night!


Big snake -- a Northern Water Snake, I believe -- warming itself on a rock --


The graffiti is always changing at Texas Beach. It is a bit incongruous, but it can be interesting.


It was my host for games group yesterday. And of course it being 95F outside, the downstairs AC had a funky smell -- in the way it does when it has been used once and then not used again. So we had to deal with a bit of unpleasant smell. It just means I need to open up the air handler, flush it out, and use some AC drain cleaner.

The game I chose (Shifting Stones) was well received. We used a swiveling Scrabble board as a turntable to turn the game facing each player.


I still have a few surviving roses, back from the time when I had a fair number of roses which I tended properly with fertilizer and pruning, and spraying for black spot. Most have died off without my constant care, but there are still a few in the yard.