I Like You, Heart. I Heart You, Lichen.

I Have Taken Up Acorn Carving

Not really; some squirrel or bird did it. But can you see the little face?

A School Wall That I Love

Lizard in Bucket

Damselfly

Let's pretend that the blurred effect is on purpose and artistic

Toadstool

Rusty Bucket

Miss Lo and Herself, Part III

(and her shredded lamp)

Miss Lo and Herself, Part II

Jessie in the Grass

Ruby on the Porch

Miss Loretta and Herself: Part I

Spiderweb in Cedar Tree

Wasp and Crape Myrtle

Wasp Nest in the Rosemary

Tarantula Hawk

Arghhh! Why, why, why can't I get a decent photograph of the elusive tarantula hawk? So shiny, so purply-black and purply-golden, so Gorey-like as it flies around with its giant legs hanging down.

These are the only other snaps I've managed of this guy. In six years. It's sad, really.


This one is crappy but I love it anyway

My New Great-Nephew!

Cat and Mt. Rushmore

Living in Texas

It's the "Beretta Shotgun Sale" sign there in the background at McBride's Gun Shop that is the import of this photo snapped while the car in front of me and I waited to turn left onto 30th Street from Lamar.

Friday Evening XIII

Friday Evening XII

Friday Evening XI

Friday Evening X

Friday Evening IX

Friday Evening VIII

Friday Evening VII

Friday Evening VI

Friday Evening V

Friday Evening IV

Friday Evening III

Friday Evening II

Friday Evening I

Gina's New Glasses II

Gina's New Glasses

How Much Does This Granite Weigh?

For Erin in Australia

I saw two very long flatbed semi trucks the other day on Highway 71, headed into Austin; each of them was carrying two of these giant blocks of pink granite. Trying to think how large this was—8 feet square? 10 feet? Larger? In any case, enormous. I wondered if they were coming in from Llano.

My Friends Will Not Believe Who Is on the Other End of These Leashes

Evening, and It's Not Even Hot

Crape Myrtles

They bloomed this year. Most of the time I forget that we have some.

Mighty Oaks Will Grow

Gorey Beetle 2010: #2

This little guy was trapped on the kitchen screen, going around and around the edge because it could not or did not want to step onto the aluminum frame (though how did he get there?). When I went out to help, my hand drawing near caused it to pull in its legs, as they do to feign death, thereby causing it to fall off and into the plants below.

Morning Sky II