This weekend I made my first trip to College Station to watch my first ever track meet. I’m so glad I did, it was a blast. Jeremy made the podium in 8th place in the heptathlon – an All-American in the strongest field of heptathletes that have competed together in a long time, maybe ever – according to my informed track parent friends 🙂
Irene and Joseph stayed with us again tonight and we had our own little party to celebrate and catch up.
My morning stroll through the wildflower patch in the way back found 3 bluebonnets have their color.
And many more to come, i hope.
I’m very excited that one of my best friends from high school, Irene, is here for a visit with her husband, Joseph. They live in Seattle. Their son Jeremy is competing in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship @ Texas A&M this weekend in the heptathlon, for the University of Washington. They’re staying with us tonight before driving up to College Station tomorrow. They flew in this evening and we went to dinner at Chez Nous (*love* that place) and walked around downtown afterward.
We buzzed through the landmark Driskill Hotel. This is a shot of the huge glass ceiling decoration over the main lobby.
Nice.
It’s funny, really. I looked out the front window today and saw that all of a sudden the ornamental pear tree out front had burst into bloom. I looked back through the photos I took last spring, because I recall taking a photo of the entire tree full of white flowers. It turns out I took that picture last year on the same day as today – March 9th.
Amazing how all this works.
Today is the 1 year anniversary of my starting this blog. To mark the occasion, I made a collage using all 365 of the moments that I’ve posted here.
I can recall taking each one. 🙂
I started this in early March last year, in time to capture the signs of Spring, and into the Summer as things began to warm up and as we spend so much time on the lake… then through the changes in Fall and Winter when we spend more of our time on projects and playing with friends on land. I’ve come full circle, and am looking forward all the moments from the coming year.
Happy Mardi Gras! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lori and to Mary!
Today’s post makes the 365th moment that I have shared with you. This is a shot of one of the geraniums I planted yesterday that I took today during a break between conference calls.
I’m very pleased that I have stuck with this post-a-photo-per-day-for-a-year project. There were some days that I found it difficult to see something worth sharing. But I have to say that most days I looked forward to toting my camera around with me, and was usually pleased to find a moment that was either a photo that I liked or at least made for a nice story to share.
Wow, a year. 365 moments. It goes by fast.
I look forward to keeping my blog going. I don’t know that I will be posting something every day, but I am definitely looking forward to posting more moments worth sharing.
A colleague of mine passed away over the weekend after a fight with cancer. He was only 51.
I can only hope that you all have many more years left on this earth to share with your friends and family. But since we never know when our time will be up, we have to take the time to enjoy and be thankful for each and every day that we get to spend with them. I have done that for a year. And I hope to from here on out…
Another great weekend. I put out some more flowers. These are Columbines, which I think are just beautiful. They are perennials, so I’m hoping this will be year 1 of many years of blooms.
They were lit up by the quickly setting sun.
This is the first weekend in March and it’s WINDY! We took a break from cleaning house and varnishing the boat to take the awesome pirate ship kite that Santa brought me out for its maiden voyage. It’s about 2 feet high and 3 feet long, made by New Tech Kites, a company here in Austin.
Tomorrow is actually the Zilker Kite Festival, but ironically, the wind is predicted to be in the single digits tomorrow. So today was our chance!
It turns out the kite is rated for 8-20 mph winds, and it was gusting in the 20s, so it actually ended up being a bit too windy for it. But we did get her up in the air and flying! AHOY!
The yard is scattered with fledgling weeds. This is one that seems to be pretty hardy. It has small, spunky purple blooms. It’s the only splash of color on the landscape tonight.
Today is Friday (thankfully). And all is well.
After work tonight we pruned the crepe myrtles back.
Supped on a Tuscan pizza from Brick Oven (next best thing to homemade).
Watched an old Elvis flick on TCM (“Clambake” – um, not his best).
And then watched Jacques Pepin and Julia Child argue whether the turkey had enough or too much salt.
I wish every day was Friday (night)!
Monte and I gravitate towards the dull edge of the technology adoption curve. We have had the same, old school cell phones for about 8 years now. They both looked identical and served us well. Last week AT&T sent a letter to the remaining cavemen that were on the old plans with old phones to tell us that we had to get new phones and a new plan or our old ones would stop working in about a month.
So we have been grudgingly forced up to the next level of bare bones basic phone. Nope, no data plans or internet access — still just a phone. Here’s a shot of the new device. It only took me a few minutes to figure out how to make a phone call 🙂
I did take the opportunity this time to get us each different colored phones. So we got that going for us…
Now that the days are getting longer and the weather is Spring-like, I’ve started my ritual walk-around-the-yard-to-see-what’s-new every evening after work. I was stalking a cardinal for a while, trying to get a great shot to share with you. He wasn’t in the mood, though.
I am anxiously watching for signs of life in my bed of perennials. I was excited to see these 2 morning glory seedlings show themselves. Their leaves are very distinctive. Last year I planted a couple of seeds. One grew into a vine. The vine grew to cover the 6′ metal obelisk under which it was planted, and then some. The flowers were a beautiful pink/crimson. These 2 are volunteers from that vine.
As Monte is all too aware, I am NOT a fan of bugs. Spiders in particular. So, I am hoping you can appreciate the steely focus and determination with which I leaned in headfirst to within a couple inches of this guy while I manually focused to capture this moment and share with you.
Ok, so what if the spider was no more than 1/4″ long? We all need to stretch beyond our comfort zone, right? 🙂
I was walking out back this afternoon and was a tad disappointed in the late signs of spring. But then I saw this web glistening in the sun. If the spiders are back, Spring must be right around the corner!
My blog is featured today on a website called 365: Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life — a bit of a thrill for me, as I near the 1 year anniversary of starting this photo-a-day-for-a-year project (just 1 more week to go).
I’ve really enjoyed this project. Yes, the year has flown by. Like all the others. But, I can honestly say that doing this photoblog has made it just that much more enjoyable and memorable – which will soon become a wish fulfilled.
This is shot of a ceramic gazing ball / garden globe that adorns one of my garden beds. I like how it caught my reflection with the sky as a backdrop. I’m also trying out the color accent setting on my camera.
We’ve had an absolutely beautiful weekend. Temps hit 80 here at the house. And we’ve been busy – a little yard work, a little house work, a little work work, some shopping, chats with out of town family, and we replaced the doors on the garden shed. There’s just never enough time…
Well, the Valentine’s Day roses have been beautiful and lasted for 2 weeks. These are a few of the petals that I snapped before I took them outside. I tried to get a good macro shot, but this was as close as I was able to get.
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