The 50th Wedding Anniversary

by | Oct 4, 2015 | Bright Lights

  Fifty years ago on September 4th, 1965, we were married at the First Methodist Church in Rosenberg, Texas. This September we celebrated those 50 years together at a party hosted by the kids at our place at Lake LBJ. Caroline and AJ wanted to do something to...

Praying Mantis Like Cactus, Too.

by | Sep 24, 2015 | Cactus Are Cool

I discovered this praying mantis on the euphorbia trigona the other day. Just to simplify a bit, mantises are from the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, and order Mantodea and I suspect most of us take them for granted as a native insect. Not so; they were introduced...

The Bonfire From Our Back Yard

by | Sep 18, 2015 | Bright Lights

  Now that the homecoming bonfire has been moved to the back of the golf course driving range, which is right across the road, we never have to miss the spectacle. It comes right to us. For about the past two weeks, dump trucks, trailers, and flatbeds have been...

Create An Entrance to Your Garden

by | Sep 17, 2015 | Cactus Are Cool

  We recently added two new features to my cactus garden, cedar post arches that invite you to meander through its pathways. I shared the genesis of these rustic portals yesterday-“Look What My Husband Built for Me!”-The Bright Lights of Muleshoe, September 15,...

Look What My Husband Built For Me!

by | Sep 15, 2015 | Bright Lights

After a visit to my friend Shari’s Victorian/shabby chic/eclectic-style garden on the banks of Lake Travis the other day, I was inspired to reinterpret one of her pieces of landscape art to match the southwest/rustic/desert/xeriscape-style of my garden. This is what...