William Carlos Williams

This is just to say . . .

This Is Just To Say
by
William Carlos Williams


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Mother's Day Flowers

Mother's Day Wishes

- 1,793 miles from the East Coast to Seguin -

Thank you!

Bud Shrake dies

"Austin is in mourning..."

Wikipedia Bio

The Once Forbidding Land

Lean on Shrake's Rock

Library Loot

The idea is to post your library haul each week (or each time you visit).

• The Last Lion The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by the Team at the Boston Globe, edited by Peter S. Canell
• The Renegades by J. Jefferson Parker
• One Under by Graham Hurley
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

Swine Flu in Texas

Hopefully this is on the wane . . .

Texas counties with confirmed cases include:
Bexar-4
Brazoria-1
Cameron-2
Collin-3
Comal-4
Dallas-8
Denton-1
El Paso-7
Fort Bend-4
Guadalupe-13
Harris-8
Hidalgo-1
Johnson-4
Matagorda-1
Montgomery-1
Nueces-1
Starr-2
Tarrant-22
Travis-2
Non-Resident-1

The earliest known onset of swine flu in Texas was April 11. The most recent known onset of the illness was April 28.

Party?? NO! NO!