This is Mike the Bee Guy after finishing four hours atop a 40-foot ladder eradicating a huge hive full of angry, attacking honeybees. I was sad to have to kill off the hive, but Mike, a beekeeper himself, pronounced them …

So the productive part of yesterday was how I was able to harvest several baskets of big, yellowish-green figs that had ripened early on the tree out front. The less-productive part of yesterday came when I attempted to mow the …

In the flowers in the light The clouds and in the wind A Code from the Universe Telling you it’s OK Telling you welcome home You knew all along and it was true You’re part of the Same Ten thousand …

Sometimes creating art involves inventing a visual problem and then attempting to solve it. Often, when confronted with the vastness of the various Texas wildflower seasons, I imagine what the impressionist painters of the 1800s would have to say about …