Warm days, cool nights

These are the days of spring in Central Texas, and one only wishes they would last all year. With what little rain we’ve had so far, alas, the ditches along the highways aren’t filling with the usual red, yellow and pink flowers, and bluebonnets have hardly made an appearance and probably won’t be abundant in any case. And the scorching days are coming. You can feel them when the early evening hours are still hovering around seventy-five degrees, before the natural dip back into the low sixties.