It’s a Family Affair I’ve started scanning old photos that I found when I was going through my Mom’s things after she passed away. This is just a quick and dirty compilation until I have more time. It’s amazing how much I remember and how much must be lost over the years. Hopefully the rest of the family can join in and we’ll make a bigger collection.
And Now for Something Totally Different I was looking back through my phone pics catalog this morning and stumbled across these shots taken from some flight somewhere. If the date on them is correct then they’re from Australia. But who knows. As a geologist, I’m always looking out the window and taking pictures of the earth. They usually look like crap because of clouds, glare, fingerprints, etc. Lynn said she might want some abstract photos for a bathroom, so here’s my take on aerial geology abstractions.
Way Out West Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. Well technically they’re bison but it just wouldn’t sound the same would it? And obviously the weatherman didn’t get the cloudy skies forecast. This is just a quick look-back at our 2015 trip to Wyoming. Our first stop was to visit with our friends, Beth and Jeff, in Jackson Hole. We stopped for a few days in the Yellowstone area before continuing on to Cody for Read more »
A Little Background This post is part of a long term project for me about Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. I first visited Glenwood in 1960 0r ’61 for the funeral of a distant relative. I was 13-14 years old and didn’t pay any attention to it’s location. As I recall, all us cousins were in a limo and none of us were from Houston. We had all come from San Antonio where we were staying with Aunt Lucille and Uncle Jack. They had a day camp for kids called River Ranch Day Camp. I went there from age 4-17. I’ll Read more »
It seems I just can’t let go.
Short trip to the UK, 2011 Lynn and I made a quick trip to the UK over Thanksgiving that year. Quick as in I think we may have only spent 3 nights there. We found a nice little B&B in Norwich and just walked around the town like the tourists we were. Norwich is home to two beautiful cathedrals, Norwich Cathedral and the Cathedral of St John the Baptist. Construction of Norwich Cathedral was ongoing from 1096 to 1145. Talk about job security. St John the Baptist, a Roman Catholic church, is a recent addition to Norwich having been completed Read more »
Stayin’ at Home Well, here we are on the umpty-third day of stay at home but I ain’t complaining even if it is 49° and raining. Sitting here in my studio with the aspen trees along the drive budding out, lots of little birds flying around, and some good music filling the room. I’d turn on the fireplace but there’s a damn woodpecker that’s drilled a hole in the chimney and I’d hate to roast him. I do have a slingshot though. Gonna nail that sucker one day. Hope this finds everyone safe and secure in these perilous times. I understand Read more »
Lynn and I journeyed to Paris for Christmas in 2012. As you can see from the photos, the weather was dreary most of the time. We still had a good time with lots of food and good French wines. We stayed at a wonderful small hotel, the Hotel Jeu De Paume on the Île Saint-Louis. We liked it so much we returned in late November, 2013. Notre Dame is just a few blocks away on the Île de la Cité. If you’re hungry for steak while in Paris, you have to go to Relais de l’Entrecote. They’ll bring you a Read more »
Remembering Thanksgiving, 2017 I must have been feeling a bit nostalgic this afternoon. I was stumbling through my catalog of images trying to find something to occupy my mind when I came across the ones you see here. It was a beautiful Thanksgiving evening on Matagorda Bay at Port O’Connor, TX. The evenings aren’t always like this or like the sunrise two days earlier at the top of this post. And the water is almost always brown as the bay is so shallow. But this night was something to behold. The house sits across the street from a small county Read more »
First, on a serious note… Early February, 2020 found me back in Joshua Tree for the third year in a row with Don Messec of Making Art Safely. Early February seems almost like a lifetime ago with covid-19 now confining us to our homes. We had heard that there might be some people quarantined at the nearby Twentynine Palms Marine base but it didn’t seem to be that big a deal. Boy, was that wrong! So please pay attention to the medical professionals and not the politicians. This is and will be a trying time for our country but come Read more »