A cold night in Southeast Texas. Looks like the coldest night of the year is coming tonight. It is currently a clear cold 40 degrees with a dip towards freezing by morning, Hard Freeze Warning URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 853 PM CST TUE JAN 11 2011 …HARD FREEZE IN EFFECT […]
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Food for a cold day – Posole. A cold and rainy day kept us in the house today, so what better thing to do than make a good cold weather stew. I chose to make a posole – a pork stew with ancho chile and hominy. I started out with about 3 lbs of good pork
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Texas Cold and Rainy Day Winter has arrived. An overnight front brought rain and thunder, with slowly falling temperatures predicted for the day. Snow and sleet is predicted for the northern areas of SE TX, but hopefully we will avoid that mess. We will probably get a light freeze on Tuesday, but miss the hard
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This composite satellite photo from NASA gives a graphical representation of the urban centers on our planet. It appears as though the planet is infested with humans. There are areas of wilderness as evidenced by the lack of any lights in this composite.
Balanced rock located in the Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, is a massive boulder perched on two pedestals. This is a naturally occurring geological formation. A large rock or boulder, sometimes of substantial size, resting on other rocks that often look precariously balanced. In reality, these rocks only appear to be balancing but are
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An outstanding specimen of the Big Bend Bluebonnet – Lupinus havardii. This variety, a member of the pea family, is much larger than Lupinus subcarnosus – The Texas bluebonnet. The Big Bend Bluebonnet is distinguished by its deep color and bright yellow central splotches. Much taller than most bluebonnets, this species grows 3-4 ft. high
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