Last night was the first below-freezing night here in Central Texas, the home of My-Lynx Associates. And unfortunately, the estimated 28 degree temperature did some damage. We might say "tragic" damage, but in the great circle of life, the damage was part of the annual cycle of things, so breathless adjectives like the word tragic are not applicable to a natural and somewhat expected event like a visit from Jack Frost. Frost very often comes even earlier in the year.

The flimsy sheets we used to protect our salad crop were too light to withstand the breezes that came with the cold front and yesterday's salad patch is now a brown pot of ooze. So the photo below is only a memory now of a warm summer and cool Fall, and perhaps in the Spring to come, we can replant our little salad patch.