Just a quick, one-photo post tonight.    I’ve passed this field west of Taylor a few times.   This old Plymouth seems to have been nestled in this spot for years.    The vehicle matches its surroundings.

The calendars on your wall may tell you that summer begins June 20.   If you happen to live in Central Texas, you know that’s only a technicality.   Summer is here right now.  Yesterday afternoon the actual temperature was 95 degrees, but the heat index?   That was 103.    On Wednesday afternoon in Georgetown, I noticed quite a few folks cooling off at Blue Hole Lagoon.   It’s free, and there’s plenty of water to go around.   One young lady, expecting her first child on July 8, appreciated the rushing water as she sat near Blue Hole’s waterfall.   A proud mom-to-be, she didn’t mind her photo being taken at all.    If my cameras had been waterproof, I’d have joined in the fun.   It did look like fun.   Stay cool, and hydrated, friends.

Today was Flag Day in the United States.   Tonight, I photographed our fine symbol at the Taylor Post Office, with the moon hovering in the distance.   And I stopped at Murphy Park, watching one lone duck, born this Spring, amble gracefully along.

Sunflowers are adding their little touches of yellow to the Blackland Prairie landscape in recent weeks.   These aren’t to be confused with the gigantic sunflowers that grow as large as your head.   These grow wild, and much smaller, but no less delightful to see.   Mostly, I see them along the roadside, next to fields of our abundant late-Spring corn crops.    Over the last few days, I’ve made a few stops for photos.   Last night, as the sun was setting, I shot a few more.  Rain was forecast, but didn’t materialize.  The sun, being the sun, added a bit of texture to these little wildflowers named for her.   Enjoy them while they’re with us, friends.

On a somewhat sizzling Saturday, I spent my time taking photos at a farmers market, at Georgetown’s Wolf Ranch shopping center, where I encountered a 3-year-old selecting his own peaches, plus two Pomeranians, Chester and Bailey, enjoying the morning with their mom.   As the temperature rose, I meandered over to the Georgetown Square for Market Days on The Square, held the second Saturday each month.  There I found a vendor, relaxing under the shade of a big oak tree on the courthouse lawn, a fellow cooling off next to a big misting fan, and Gerty Belle, a 2-year-old Juliana pig, out for a stroll with her folks.  Gerty Belle is fully house-trained, topping the scales at only 45 pounds.    It was a good day, for both two-legged, and four-footed friends.

Minimal words with tonight’s post.   The corn crop on the Blackland Prairie is thriving.   These photos were taken at sunset tonight.  The first three were taken at small intervals, as the sun continued to disapppear.   The last photo is sans the corn, just sun and clouds.

Although your calendars will tell you that summer officially begins later this month, in Central Texas, folks, it’s here now.   After the usually-quick spring season, we went right into some good old Texas heat, really beginning in April.   So it’s a good thing the City of Georgetown’s Parks Department has some very fine, reasonably-priced city pools where you can beat the heat and have fun in the process, perhaps bond with your kids, or, like the 4-year-old young lady near the end of this post, with your grandpa.   These are some of the photos taken this week for my Williamson County Sun friends.  Stay cool, friends.

Just a little drive near home tonight after finishing up a paying assignment in Salado.   What is about egrets and cattle?  Why are the birds attracted to livestock?   And how do the cows feel about it?    One photo has no birds, just a mom and her calf.   Have a good night.

On Saturday night in Georgetown, Texas, a concert was planned, part of the 2016 Festival of the Arts.   The weather, however, had left San Gabriel Park quite soaked.   Saturday afternoon, the Georgetown High School music ensembles, the evening’s scheduled performers, decided to cancel.   That didn’t stop a handful of people from showing up, for fireworks, which did not cancel.     A brief shower did come through a little before 8p.m.  People scurried, and actually left.   4-year-old identical twins Ella and Anna Daniel, however, were there with their mom, dad and grandparents.    They like the park, and fireworks, too.    The Crockett family, including Dale, his wife Sherry, and their sons, Luke and Joshua, took in the colorful lights about 9:30 Saturday night.

Cameron James Sharp, our grandson, lives over 900 miles from us.   We don’t get the opportunity to see him, or his mom and dad,  that often.   Needless to say, we don’t like this, but for now, it is what it is.   We won’t be leaving Texas anytime soon.   It took far too long to get back.   With that in mind, here are some photos taken of Cameron and dad (my son, Austin) at Bull Branch Park, in Taylor, Texas on Friday evening.   They boarded a plane back to Atlanta the next morning.   Any family member of ours must see the Taylor ducks whenever they can!  The last photo in this post is just a moment between Cameron and his dad after leaving the park.