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November Flowers in Austin, Texas

November Flowers from Francis Allcorn on Vimeo. I walked around the garden checking the ponds as I usually do several times a day and was struck by the number of flowers, especially roses that are in...

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It’s raining at my house…

I have been sitting indoors for these past three days watching it rain. It’s not that I mind the rain as goodness only knows, we need as much as we can get. No, what I mind is that it is bloody cold...

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The Thanks in Thanksgiving

Turkey day has come and gone and the next to come along is Christmas, more spiritual and yet commercialized in every sense more so than Thanksgiving can be as we spend time with our families or with...

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My 47th Anniversary…March 13, 1967.

Well, would you believe that on this day, forty-seven years ago, my family and I landed at New York Harbor on the magnificent Queen Mary. We were met by my mother and one of her friends who drove us...

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APS January 2015 Meeting

The Austin Pond Society held its first meeting of the year on January 18 at the Zilker Botanical Gardens Meeting Room attended by about 40 members. There were several new members who introduced...

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Today’s Thoughts, June 21, 2015. Father’s Day in America.

Today is June 21st, Fathers Day in America. We are probably the only country in the world that can come up with all of these dedicated days to celebrate something or another. Most official Holidays in...

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Why do we keep so much paper?

I had lunch with a friend, one of the first people I met after moving to Texas almost 40 years ago. He invited me to play on his soccer (football) team even though he had never seen me play. I spent...

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Reimers Ranch 6-24-2016

For a change, I decided to take a walk at Reimers Ranch where I hadn’t been in a while. I thought that maybe I would take one of the two long hikes but when I arrived, changed my mind. Instead, I...

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Walking McKinney Falls State Park with BJ 7-21-2016

BJ and I met a little after 10:00 am at the entrance gate at McKinney Falls State Park as she had earlier indicated a desire to go on another walk. I’m always up for a walk and was more than willing to...

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Another Wet Day…

Another wet day in my home town it has been like this for more than a week the days before this were a hundred and three and now it feels much cooler to me it’s not unusual in Texas for such extremes...

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