Total waste of $5 !!! lol

One of my favorite shots - sunset from the parking garage for Spohn Hospital on Shoreline.  If I stare at it too long I start seeing shadows!  lolol



THE TREE @ AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL

(Look at all the little people!)   :-P

I took this picture at ACL in 2005 (I think)...  This tree is big, no doubt, but to me this shot makes it seem even bigger than it actually is.  I wouldn't mind going to the ACL Festival again.

Well it's been a few days, but I've been a tiny bit busy. Here's a photo of some of my family. We went to eat last night at, where else?, a Mexican food restaurant! lol. We had a really good time. The conversation was lively, the food was pretty good, and most of my favorite people were there.

Love the light play in these clouds!  Can't imagine what the cloud shapes were above these to create this effect.

Forget the personals - Just hang a sign outside your house!

This had to have been about 1989....because Philemon is still shorter than Camille!  lol  The kids would've been 5, 3 and 1.  I don't remember why this picture came out so pink.  I don't think we had any lenses that would've caused it, so it might've been just old film or something.  Regardless, it sure came out a pretty shot.  This was at one of the beaches in California.  We didn't go as often as we should've.  Oh my, look how cute they are here! 

Boohoo!  I haven't played any of my FB games in so long, I'm feeling I'M the one that doesn't care!  (sniffle, sniffle)

I was so into FarmVille when I bought this t-shirt in Corpus... one of those purchases I just had to have!    lol


By the way, my apologies...this should've been Thursday's post, but I had such a good day and topped it off by watching TV and, of course, then I woke up and it was 1:00 a.m.!  So Thursday got skipped - - I KNEW I'd mess up my good 3-day streak!  Will posting two today count?  hahahaha

Ok, I sat down this afternoon and played around with the design settings! Let's see if it looks any better now....

The colors in these clouse were amazing!  This shot was taken from my front porch in Laredo, can't remember if it was last year or this year, but it was a stunning display!

Ok, I'm not getting it...  how come the blogs I follow are not listed on my page anywhere?  This is annoying me.  I would like it to all be on one page like it was before.  I think at this point you have to go down to the bottom of my page and click on the link to my profile and then the blogs I follow are on the bottom of THAT page.   psssshhhhh  Is this blogging thing going to be more trouble than it's worth?

Wow, three days in a row - a new record for me!  lol

I took this picture on my way back to Laredo one week.  I love 'ribbon of road' pictures....

Late 2009
Head west, young man!

Each year Camille's boyfriend creates a cd of his favorite music from that year.  This is the cover art from his 2009 collection.  He combined a photo of my daughter with... yes, that's a human heart in the middle of her face!  lol   I had a hard time figuring out that it was a human heart at first.  They had to explain that to me...  I thought it looked like a dead and mangled moth and wondered why he'd choose that, hahahahahahaha.  (And so much for my own intelligence and making connections, lol.  It's artistry of a sort I guess.)  He has a link on his Facebook page to the music (and the cover art) if you're interested in taking a look.  Marvin Meraz - then go to his Notes page and the links are on there for his 2009 and 2010 collections.

And here I go again.... (lol)

Okay, let's see if I can get this silly blog thing started ...  again!  (And, of course, I'm not promising anything.  lol)

Corpus Christi harbor.  The bigger tanker was being loaded with military vehicles - an entire yard full of them!  A couple of days earlier I had been in the same area and a smaller ship (similar to the one in this shot) was at the dock by itself and I was amazed, as I always am, at their sheer size and how you feel dwarfed even just seeing them even from a distance.  Then this gargantuan ship very nearly dwarfed this smaller one.  It's amazing to me that they float!  :-P

Okiedokie - here we go....

I had wanted to take part in a 30-day photo-a-day challenge my daughter told me about and had decided to start this past Monday, however,  I kept my niece and nephew (greats) and they pretty much kept me on my toes the whole day - I totally forgot about the project until tonight.  I would say better late than never, but I'm too tired.  I will see how I'm feeling tomorrow...maybe I'll start then.  I'll  keep the blog posted (no pun intended...lol).

Here's a little something for in the meantime....

A double rainbow over Laredo

The other end of the rainbow

Water towers are the "pot o' gold" for a desert community!  lol

Well crud...

So I decided to get started on this blog by posting pictures from when my daughter moved to California and now I can't find where I stored the rest of my pictures from the trip.  I thought they might be in one of my online photo accounts, but haven't found them yet.  I'm giving myself a couple of more days and then I'm moving on to a new theme...(I can always come back to finish this one up later, right?).

However, I do believe this is an appropriate photo to post for today!

Can anyone say "Ziggy Day!"  lol

Hello blog-world - thought I would join the fun and since I don't have necessarily so much to say, I thought I'd make my blog a 'photo place' to start with. I've seen different ones of my family and friends with their photography projects, some of them themed, and thought I'd like to give that a try. This is the first time I've ever added a photo so this is my test piece. I'm thinking a photo a day will be too ambitious for me to start off with, so I'm going to spend a couple of weeks just getting the feel of the process and the blogging system here.

This photo was taken in (I think) Arizona, or perhaps California, when my daughter moved.  She and I made her move into a road trip and had a great time of it!  So I'm going to cull through some of the pictures and post them a few at a time.  I guess that makes the theme of this first set "A Moving Road Trip" - sounds good and covers a lot of bases.  Not sure how long I'll spend on it - I'm horrible at deciding which photos to use for stuff - but it'll get my wings to workin' in the blogsphere.

And thus begins my foray into phoblography - sorry - I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make up a new word!  lol  (and, yes kids, I know that was "dumb" and I know you're laughing at me, but that's okay because I'm laughing at me too!  lol)   Okiedokie then....here I go.

My daughter in a prickly situation!

I forget what these round ones are called, but it can sure be a challenge to get a good close-up!

Dancing Cacuts

I'd forgotten how interesting saguaro could be!

Teddy  Bear Cactus

This pretty little lady was sitting on eggs.  She was so still we almost didn't even see her!

 Well, I guess that's all I'm going to attempt tonight.  They're not really laid out the way I'd like, but I'm sure I'll get the hang  of that soon enough.  

I do want to give a shout out to those of my family and friends who encouraged me to start this little venture... I've taken a look at what you've all done over the last few years and have been inspired!  :   Camille, Jan, Laura, AndriaPandria, Andrea, Brenda, and John.  Thanks for getting me started.