January 4, 2010

Old Cities Have Old Doors

So I added some to my collection.

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, (1854 - 1900)

January 3, 2010

Mi Tierra Never Closes

This famous restaurant has been serving up Tex-Mex dishes for locals and visitors since 1941. No trip to the city would be complete without at least one Mi Tierra meal. For us, it was breakfast underneath this famous mural.

January 2, 2010

What a way to kick off a new year -- a new decade. This day finds us in San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl football game between Texas Tech and Michigan State. But first, a walk by the river and lunch at Casa Rio.

December 29, 2009

Lovin the Sunshine

Fun fun family session while the McLaughlin kids were home from college. Laughing and playing the whole time.

DIG those orange shoes! What a hoot.

December 24, 2009

Silent Night - Holy Night

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

December 7, 2009
Faded Birthday Roses

The sun shining in through the kitchen window bounced off my stainless steel refrigerator, casting the most lovely light on my birthday roses. They're tired and dry, but I still see too much beauty in them to throw them into the compost pile just yet.

"Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere." -- W. Somerset Maugham, (1875-1965) English novelist; The Painted Veil, 1925

December 4, 2009

HISTORY!

This is only the second time it has snowed in Houston since we moved here in 1999. Last time it was on Christmas day and we were out of town.

I'm so excited I can't focus on anything. Just want to watch it come down. Want to play. Want to throw snowballs!

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
Doug Larson

December 2, 2009

Wall Talk

" Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein -- German-born US physicist (1879 - 1955)

December 1, 2009

Dignity

Brannigan has been in the news from home lately. He's the Ninja-cat that raided our Thanksgiving appetizer platter and got into the leftovers on Thursday, and he's the daredevil who ate a poinsettia on Monday. None the worse for wear, he's thrilled with the new arrangement of our furniture. Now HIS chair is in a big window.

By the way, we've increased the frequency of his canned-food rations. He's 11 years old. He deserves it.

Happy Cat!

"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." -- John Brown

November 30, 2009

One From the Archives

Doing a little bit of computer cleanup, I came across this shot from 2005. I still like it.