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Perhaps a decoy to draw in the real thing? While traveling home from a hill country visit, south of Devine’s sunflower fields yet still north of the turn toward Jourdanton, I noticed an odd name on an official state road sign: Bigfoot. Despite occasional reports of mysterious creatures roaming our swamps or pineywoods, finding Bigfoot … Continue reading Finding Bigfoot
Even those whose lives blossom under the heat of a coastal sun can become ambivalent about summer’s realities. Eagerly anticipated through winter’s dormancy, desired for its warmth and coveted for its beauty, Gulf Coast summers inevitably end as a season of imprisonment. Rising heat and implacable humidity transform the pleasures of earlier, more temperate … Continue reading Summer: The Shuttered…
Fireworks over Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Thanks to copious rains, much of Texas no longer is in drought, and fireworks sellers are sprouting up like mushrooms. From family-friendly sparklers and snakes to larger and more dramatic displays common along the waterfront, everyone seems to love the color and noise of Independence Day. The most color and … Continue reading Celebration on a Human Scale
A Northern Mockingbird waiting to sing to the sky As much as a bumblebee’s hum, a cicada’s harsh trill, or the whistle of nighthawk wings, the repetitive yet creative cacophony of neighborhood mockingbirds is one of nature’s most recognizable sounds. Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) typically sing from February through August before beginning again in September … Continue reading The…
Mary Magdalene Discovering the Tomb ~ Herschel Pollard The early Christian practice of risus paschalis – Easter laughter – arose after early church fathers began promoting the view that Jesus’s resurrection represented the ultimate practical joke; played by God on the devil, it affirmed the triumph of life over death and good over evil. Joke-telling … Continue reading Easter Laughter