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Storms coming through tonight
Likely severe. The first round is roaring through Oklahoma right now. "Our" storms are just going through Abilene and San Angelo. You can see it in motion right here, or here's a still. Yellow boxes are Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and green boxes are Flash Flood Warnings. (A Watch means that a condition may happen; a Warning means that a ( Read more... ) -
Monday Again
*yawn*
Rehearsal was exhausting tonight. We worked hard again, most on the Requiem. It's not a short or simple piece! It's coming together really well, though. -
Busy day again
So have some pictures of the front garden! None of these flowers are yet from seeds. That's still really early days. These are plants I bought this year, or have survived/come back from last year.
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Opinions on Plumes, Please!
I took these pictures in a hurry this morning. I hope they make sense! In order from longest to shortest.
First, the untrimmed hat.
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Anyone else noticed that Pinterest is on the fritz?
I can't scroll through my boards. It keeps jumping around and I can't look at all the pictures.
Their Help section is pathetic, so a lot of people have taken to Facebook. LOTS of complaints in the last week and next to no response. Grr. -
Somehow I keep ending up with non-stop Saturdays.
Today I got a late start because I slept until almost 9. I had to fluff the feather bed, do laundry, clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher, make breakfast, get myself put together for the day, trim/toss the fresh flowers from a week ago, and THEN go get some groceries. It wasn't my big trip; an interim one, so at least didn't take too long. I was ( Read more... ) -
Surprise visit to the symphony tonight!
Some friends had an extra ticket. Yay! I sat 6 rows from the front - pretty spectacular to be able to see that much. And it was a very good concert. A Mozart violin concerto, which was just delightful. And then, Shostakovich's 11th symphony,"The Year 1905." Very intense, "film score without the film." An incredible experience in person. The ( Read more... ) -
Marya's First Leaves!
So I do still have a live tree in my backyard. It's a little nerve-wracking, planting a tree in winter. You don't know for sure it's alive until it starts putting out leaves on the spring.
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