Author: Rich Horner
Old Beaver Pond 5-24-26
With a Guest appearance from Mars Lake Story Click any image to view full size and browse the gallery. Quote
Our Yard is Alive With Color
Flowers, another love Patty & I share We’ve had a nice soft rain most of the week — 3.52 inches so far, with more forecast every day through Thursday. By then I suspect we’ll be ready for a break. The garden and flowers are loving it though: temperatures in the high 70s to mid-80s °F,…
Potato Harvest May 18, 2026
Ray and Terry’s Farm Approximately 70 buckets or 2,450 lbs. of Red Potatoes “To know oneself is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.” Click any image to view full size and browse the gallery. I thought it would be fun to add the images from the potato seed, potato eye cutting done…
Week One Update, Seven More To Go
5/17/26 I just finished my first week of radiation. Honestly, it’s pretty uneventful — they’ve really got it down to a science. My treatment is at 1:30 in the afternoon. I leave the house at 12:30, it’s about 35 miles — half interstate, half surface roads through Moss Point and into Pascagoula — and the…
Deer Island from Bird Barge
In search for a visiting Caracara We had a wonderful morning skirting the island. A bit windy and choppy, but absolutely beautiful. At one point a large bird in the pines near the new dredging area got our hearts racing — but our excitement shifted from Caracara to Bald Eagles. Word had been that the…
We broke the ice on Monday
Had the first radiation and have had two since, and six weeks in on the hormone therapy. The process is quick and smooth, takes about 35 minutes: 5 to 10 minutes of waiting, 5 minutes of being positioned and 12 minutes of imaging, and radiation. Dr Greenfield, Nurse Rhonda, and the Singing River Cancer Center…
Interview with the Vampire
I have just finished, Interview With the Vampire, By Anne Rice. Like the last two books I read, I walked away, then returned; this has become a norm for me. I had book discussions with a couple of my AI consultants and came up with the following book recommendation, Review, and study of Anne Rice,…
Iceland Gull & Others
April 26, 2026 Patty and I were out birding at Whitehead Wildlife Mgt Area when we noticed some serious dark clouds building to the west. We were already thinking about heading in when her phone buzzed — a text from a birding friend saying she was looking at a rare Iceland Gull over in Biloxi,…
Our Back Yard – First week of May
A few photos of visitors in the back yard, a couple residence, and flowers. Click any image to view full size and browse the gallery. “I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that…
Clower Thorton Park, Gulf Port, MS
Migratory Bird Fallout Last Thursday I was tied up with appointments, so Patty and Holly Berry headed over to the Clower Thornton Nature Area in Gulfport — just a few blocks from the Gulf. I checked in with her around 3:00 in the afternoon, and she was so excited she was barely coherent. Two things…
