Monday evening moon light

The moon shines brightly just after sunset. 

When I arrived home from work this afternoon I took the mower out of the storage shed and began mowing the front yard.   The high rain totals lately have the grass growing an inch a day in some areas of the yard.  When I finished mowing the front yard the sun had set and the moon was rising.  The moon at this point nearly full and is very bright.  It makes walking pleasant because you really don't need a flash light to see. School started here today and that reminded me that it won't be long now and we will begin to sense the temperature in the evening dropping ever so slightly.  As the days continue to grow shorter we here on the Gulf Coast will begin our second summer growing season. It is something like spring in reverse.  Ultimately it will end with a killing frost in October or November. Then it will be time for that light jacket to come out of the closet. The evening and morning walks will be a wonderful reward for those willing to take advantage of them.  Something to look forward to as we enjoy the last days of summer.  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a restful night.  Goodbye.

Gone but not forgotten

The dog carries a tree to it's final resting place. 

The sun returned this morning after a brief vacation above the clouds and it didn't take much walking to work up a sweat in the heat of the early morning.   The dog and I walked up to a field that was recently plowed and had a look at a gigantic John Deere tractor with a huge plow behind it.  If I can get permission from the owner I will try and post a picture of it for the aspiring farmers out there.  After that we walked back down the road to check up on an unoccupied home nearby.  The elderly lady who owns the home is with her children or in a nursing home now I believe.  A friend who lives up the road  and I come by the home every now and then to make sure it is secure.   The owner's children have someone to keep the grounds up so the yard looks really nice.  This home has been here since back in the 50's which has allowed the landscaping to become well established. The lady who lived here planted trees all over the property. Now her legacy in the trees remains though she is no longer here.   The trees have been left alone to grow for decades and they have become enormous.  There is a magnolia with a trunk that is 4 or 5 feet in diameter in a field behind the home.  I can imagine that tree would have a great story to tell if it could talk.  Some of the trees have reached the point where they are dying of old age and disease which is sad but it happens. They have spent their entire lives growing upward and now bit by bit they are returning to the earth from whence they came.   Large rotten limbs are falling on the yard in places and they break into pieces when they hit the ground.   Today the dog found a big piece of one and decided to bring it home as he  does on all of our walks.  He likes to chew on them and have me throw them around when we get home he then discards them in the yard.  Yours truly has the job of picking them up and stacking them in the back yard.  He can bring several hundred sticks home a year. The stack is getting pretty big.  It worries me.    Thanks for coming by today.  Bye. tomorrow