Beware the Ides of March -- a "Dear Poem"

My Dear Mr. and Mrs. Ides,

 

Today I write heavy hearted for the travails and tragedies that are bound to occur in your small village today. Or is it a city birthing there in your March?

 

Your two lane roads have become expressways, your fields of green grass and purple bloom, and the crop of corn in Farmer Jones place have gone away. Ceded in their stead to what seems to be an army moving in with houses as far as the eye can see, all dress right dressed in rows of boxes.
 
This is a request for you to warn your neighbors and friends. Beware that, as the old saying goes, and I'm not putting you to blame, that the Ides there in March celebrate as if there would be no tomorrow.

And you two as leaders of your clan, and ones of my dearest friends, can make lasting change in your town.  For me this year, would you please for tomorrow, stay in, and ask the rest of the family to do so also.

 

If you'll tell yourselves, "Beware the Ides of March," change can occur.   Your neighbors soon, as the years pass, will see that this warning is becoming passé and will be a legend only.

 

"The lamb will lie with the lions" The town will no longer fear the Ides on this day, the fifteenth of March. Their City of March will have become a haven for all.

 

In good faith and a prayer

I, Dr. Jim, say to you and yours,
Beware the Ides of March

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Looking At the Sky … Mistletoe in the Texas spring sky

Mistletoe

It's spring now in Texas
What will mistletoe do
when summer's heat comes on?
It hides--in green tree leaves.




I found these in another tree
for your to see up close.
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Word for the day, REMEMBER.
Remember this spot for next
New Year's Eve.




Adi and I found the mistletoe while we were walking.
She would rather be looking for squirrels.

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..Kissing under the mistletoe

Wordless Wednesday #083 — Changes are coming ...

Pony's in the stable

cypress is loosing its needles

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"Skywatch" (my second)

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Another 'Sky Pollution' photo for today. BK must think it has to be this high to be seen from the freeway. And to stay ahead of the competition regarding sign height. I'm so glad for Lady Bird Johnson's efforts, too bad she couldn't have seen this one here in the Eisenhower town.

Found at Abilene, Kansas, while visiting the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Eisenhower Museum (link) on the way to Blogstock '08 at Nebraska on July 3 to 6 along with some of our blogging friends.

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"Skywatch" (my first)

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One horsepower vehicles in Central Park -- Wordless Wednesday # 051

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Flowers in the wild -- no, not wild flowers

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The rest are our little red bud tree in bloom (first picture) and the azaleas in full bloom today in the second picture. Gone are the red bud flowers and the white blackberry bush blooms.

The wild, yes, because we have let this bed grow wild. As soon as people do that around here, those blackberries move in.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!! A four-leaf clover for you

I thought I'd skip right over the Ides of March. On this date, March 15 in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated. That day always scares me. Why, I don't know.  [large picture] [super size] I picked this clump of clovers beside the sidewalk leading to downtown Killarney, Ireland. [large picture] [super size] There was only one with four leaves. You will have to find it, I did not pick it. Isn't picking four-leaf clovers bad luck? Later in Scotland I was able to find another four-leafed one. [large picture] [super size]

Our nice B&B in Killarney. This one was on a hill with a wonderful view from our front bay window. (link to Muckross Drive House) [large picture] [super size] Here is the one I found in Scotland. It was on the grounds at the Drummond Castle and Gardens (link). .

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Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gravitate to the Green Things

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Or yellow,
if it says
John Deere

This weather is confusing our ornamental pear trees -- Global warming effects here?

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The leaves are turning reddish and falling now. This generally happens around Thanksgiving, towards the end of November. The tips are normal for late February or early March, they are setting on buds.



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A close up view of what is happening. The poor tree doesn't know whether to hibernate or rejuvenate.

We live in the Gulf Coast Texas area, just north of Houston.

Saturday morning looking up

From Montgomery, Texas.
Out from our back porch.
We like it here a lot!

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Saturday morning after a nighttime storm
and a couple of inches of rain.

Fall Pictures from Texas

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I found this guy last Sunday morning

He's all ready for Halloween

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Adi would stay outside all day
on these nice fall days

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Need I say more?

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Explanation is below
Hint, these are holly berries
getting ready for winter

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The berries are growing here.

They come every year

then they get soft fall off,
and the birds can eat them from the ground.

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Work for the ...

night rain is coming

My work? I was on my way to Willis (Texas) to run some needed errands. I had to mail some letters, get a couple of things at the grocery store, and pick up some books from the library--ones I had ordered to come to this library from Conroe and Tomball.






It rained at Willis, while I was shopping in the grocery store. Willis is a fifteen (15) minute drive from our house.




It had not rained yet at home. But give it about 20 minutes after I got back and we had this (rain). It amounted to just under an inch in those few minutes, Houston had a lot more, those people had some street flooding.



That was enough to make standing water on the golf course back there. It was wet enough already from the day before's rain to cause this earlier in the morning:





Surely this isn't global warming? Already?

We've had a really wet summer as have other parts of the world, while some places had record breaking heat.
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Welcome to Richmond, Texas

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These are about half of the signs we encountered on Texas Highway 36, nearing Richmond (link) and Rosenberg (link), Texas.

There are a couple of things wrong with taking a ride this way. First, everything is flat as a pancake around. There isn't a hill for over 80 miles, and that is north.

Second, we could not admire the scenery for the trees signs. These were only half of the signs but the light turned green before we could take the picture so we got too close to get the other half.

Take a good look? One day this intersection ...

Do you think I ought to receive an advertising payment for getting this glorious intersection on the World Wide Web?