mumby road

  • First Fruits

    First yellow-orange cherry tomato ripening on the vine. 🌱

  • Friday morning

    Breakfast table with a coffee cup, vase Stargazer lilies, and other small potted plants.

    What a delightful breakfast spot!


  • RIP, Dickey Betts

    Guitarist Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band in 1984.


  • Verne Lundquist

    I'm not a golfer, nor am I particularly a golf fan, but I grew up with Verne on the local Dallas ABC station. What a pro!

    Tiger Woods and Verne Lundquist shake hands as Lundquist broadcasts his 40th and final Masters tournament


  • Total Solar Eclipse, Dallas, Texas, USA

    total solar eclipse
    08 Apr 2024 - 1:42 pm
    total solar eclipse
    08 Apr 2024 - 1:43 pm
    Clouds dispersed about 1 minute before totality. Amazing, simply amazing.


  • Maggie
    As an adult, my family has had three dogs. Sweet, sweet Maggie (officially, Margaret Rose) was the first.

    Early Maggie (and early kids):
    Three kids and and a sweet dog

    Late Maggie:
    A sweet dog


  • Morning, Archie (Morning Archie)
    Small brown dog lying in a sunny spot on a patterned rug.
  • The Beginnings of Lunch

    From the garden:

    Salad greens laid out on a blue-and-white-checked towel.
  • Willie's the One
    To no one's surprise, Willie Nelson wins Texas Monthly's "Celebrity Texans" bracket. And, in previous rounds, with very few exceptions, the Texan who should have advanced, did. A Final 4 of Willie, Nolan Ryan, Kelly Clarkson, and Matthew McConaughey is just about right.


  • Richard Diebenkorn, c. Nineteen fifty-seven

    Happy Easter!

    Painting of single-stem flower against a blue-green and yellow background.
  • Good Friday 2024
    Jesus, my brother,  
Jesus, my maker,  
Today, you paid my bills.   
What can I do, but fall on my face,  
And thank you for your grace?  
Jesus, my Lord.

  • CER
    Woman in a white and patterned dress and sunglasses standing in a Brooklyn street with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.

    My favorite Brooklynite.


  • Ruth Orkin
    Black and white photo by Ruth Orkin of two young women on a New York City street in 1948

    From a wonderfully illustrated review of a book of photographs by Ruth Orkin (1921-1985)


  • My Highest and Best Use
    sleeping dog
    1. Archie.
    2. My leg.

  • save family photos

    My dad, cousin, and sister, circa 1990. (I’m guessing). I love this pic. Nice sweater(?), sis!

    An older man, a middle-aged man, and a younger woman at a picnic.
  • Rose-Fingered Dawn

    oak tree branches in dawn sunlight
    📷


  • Who? Hoot.

  • Archie Daffodil

    dog in foreground with daffodils in the background
    📷


  • Is so a word
  • The Honest Broker

    I’m sure many of you already follow Ted Gioia. But for those who don’t, he’s one of the country’s most perceptive cultural critics, as well as being the world’s preeminent jazz historian. Check him out. It’ll be well worth your time.


  • A Good Yarn

    I’m really enjoying this audiobook of The Odyssey read by the actor, Anton Lesser. The translation by Ian Johnston is very accessible (if a bit awkward at times). I think this story has legs. 📚


  • John B. Stetson Hat

    Shadow silhouette of a person wearing a cowboy hat
    📷


  • Right Now | Kenneth Fields

    It’s nineteen years today since he last held
    A drink in his hand or held his breath while smoke
    Filled as much of him as he could stand
    Till, letting it out, he sought oblivion
    Of the trace of memory or anticipation,
    And his life fell into a death spiral. Since then
    He’s been around folks like him. When he’s been asked,
    And sometimes, eager, when he hasn’t been,
    He talks to the ones who are not even sure
    They want to learn how to stop killing themselves.
    That feeling still seems close to him some days.
    Right now he’s okay, and that’s enough, right now.

    RIP, Ken. You were important in my life.


  • Things I Really Like: an Ongoing List

    • Birdsong
    • Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
    • Archie
    • Tamales
    • Black licorice
    • Woodsmoke
    • Good Table Talk (more often, actually, Bar Talk)
    • a Ploughman's Lunch in a pub's garden
    • a 5:1 Martini, with a dash of orange bitters and 3 olives
    • Wind Chimes
    • Telephone calls with my out-of-town kids
    • Tacos with my in-town kid (and kid-in-law)
    • Resident Taqueria
    • Heat
    • Daffodils
    • Steel-cut oatmeal and a soft-boiled egg

  • Springing

    daffodils along an iron fence growing up through dead oak leavescherry tree blossom bud
    📷


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