Steve and Judy's Travels!

That’s what the weatherman says.

But does that make any sense?  It’s going to rain or it’s not going to rain.  What we need or want doesn’t have anything to do with it.  It’s going to rain at any particular place when it’s normal for it to rain there.  That’s just the weather in that particular place.  And normally, some years will be rainier or drier than others.  Would we move to the desert, then say we need more rain?  We could move to a rain forest and claim we need less rain.  So when we’re in one place and say we need more rain, aren’t we just saying we would rather that one place be more like some other place?

“Every organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it produces.”

What do they know?

They stumble around making babbling baby noises, running into furniture, and falling down.  Next thing, they’re speaking a language.  They don’t know subjects and predicates or present tense and past tense.  They don’t study.  They don’t know how to spell or even how to write.  They just listen and repeat and start talking until it sounds right.  They don’t have any idea how hard it is, or how long it takes, to learn a new language.  Live in a multi-lingual house?  No problem, they just learn two languages at once!

Kids.

Orange Esperanza.  I’ve been trimming and shaping, so not much to see for flowers.

Texas Lantana.  Nothing I do slows this one down.

And Texas Firebush.  This is the one that looked stone dead all the way down to the ground.

Pretty soon they’re going to have to carry on for the rest of the summer without us because we’ll be gone.  They’ll be just fine though because they’re all natives, accustomed to this climate.

The plants can get large and messy.

But the flowers are precious.