Rain! Lake Travis Rising . . .

Lake Travis up 1.87 feet and still rising.  Look at these rain totals in the area.  (We got over 6 inches Saturday night!)

12.26"  Barton Creek @ Loop 360
10.84"  LCRA Redbud Center
  8.26"  Pflugerville
  7.21"  8 miles west of Dripping Springs
  7.15"  Dripping Springs
  6.98"  Manchaca
  6.49"  6 miles west of Lakeway

Rain!

It's midnight, July 27, 2013, in central Texas, and we are having a huge, pounding, thundering, lightning-flashing, electricity-flickering, roaring downpour of rain.  My grannie used to say, about these thunderstorms, "that ol' potato wagon is rollin' across the sky."  I feel lucky -- imagine us getting a lovely rain this time of year.  It's almost August and I reckon we're in for it -- probably 40 days or more in a row of 100+ degree heat, all through August and into September.  But for now, for tonight, lovely, chilly, drenching RAIN!  

Port Aransas, July 2013

Just returned from a week in Port Aransas, and I'm ready to mosaic.  We had a wonderful, relaxing time, and brought RAIN back with us.  It is Monday morning, 9:15 a.m., dark and pouring rain; what a wonderful sound in JULY in TEXAS!!  and only 68 degrees -- heavenly.  

Round Space mosaic progress, and Rain!

The new project is going smoothly and is more than half finished.  And we got Rain yesterday, lots of beautiful, cold, gushing, excessive, blowing in the wind Rain.  It was heavenly.  The gutters couldn't handle it and the back yard was a lake.  In July - in Texas - how wonderful!