Alone one is never lonely: the spirit adventures, waking In a quiet garden, in a cool house, abiding single there; … There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone: It finds a lovely certainty in the evening and the morning. – Canticle 6, May Sarton Among the first...
Birds ‘n Beer
While browsing through my digital photo albums this weekend, I noticed a lot of attempts to capture our feathered friends doing bird-like things, which is not an easy task. As I was trying to create a montage picture during a brief trip to our island (Galveston), I inadvertently captured a...
Livingston’s Nature
A few nature moments from the trip made last week to Livingston, Texas and the adjacent Sam Houston National Forest on a glorious spring-break day. Enjoy! Cabin at Double Lake Recreational Area. Quick, blind, macro shot of something that was a-stirring in the bushes…stuck my camera over the branch...
Postcards from a Blogger
It's always good to meet up with old friends ("old" meaning an indicator of time known). And it's always interesting to spend time with people face-to-face that you spend time with exclusively from a distance.
Road Trip
A long-time friend is coming into town tomorrow and I'm going to take some well-deserved (at least in my opinion!) time off from work and go on a little road trip to see the sights.
Venice in Texas
I've never traveled to the fabled Italian city of Venice, with its legendary canals and historical gondola ways. I'm afraid my exposure to that hallowed place is through the likes of Indian Jones and his entering the crypts beneath the cathedrals floor, or the things I've read about restoration efforts...