Rambling Out Loud

I live in an apartment...in Houston...across the street from a movie theater. But God loves to throw in little bursts of nature here and there...and when I stop to notice, it makes me smile. This isn't out in a country meadow...or on a mountainside... It's between a theater and a grocery store, but that in no way takes away from the beauty.   I think I need to search for other wildflowers tomorrow.   "Earth laughs in flowers"  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love Bay Area Park.  I think it's because it doesn't feel like Houston.  In fact, it's one place down here where I can go to escape traffic noise.  It has the feel of being off in the country, by a lake. This place helped me maintain my sanity last year.  I spent most of my lunch breaks there....thinking, praying, writing, taking pictures... It was my quiet place.  It still is.  There are times I go there just to get away.   Bay Area Park does disappoint me though!   These signs are posted everywhere: Damn.  I REALLY wanted to agitate an alligator...and introduce him to my five pound chihuahua... (By the way...being the Grammar Nazi I am, I must mention the incorrect word choice on the sign...if you see it too I love you!  I mean, really?  If the city pays for a sign you'd think they would have someone edit...) Here's the crazy part...I was there once and saw someone letting their two dog...