Pics I’ve taken

  • A Magical, Musical Cave

    Caves were meant for music. Last weekend I attended the Fall Equinox Concert at the Cave Without A Name in Boerne, TX. Excitement built from the moment I was greeted with the first breath of cave air.

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  • Hot Wells is a San Antonio hotel that was built in the last 19th century and counted as its guests people such as Charlie Chaplin and Teddy Roosevelt. Since that time the hotel experienced at least five different fires and now all that is left is the bath house, the hotel itself long gone. And even the […]

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  • Once upon a time in Austin TX, 37th Street was a place of magic and miracles. A short little street tucked behind businesses on Guadalupe, it was unremarkable in every way until December. That’s when every house on the street hung hundreds of strands of Christmas lights to and fro, up and down and around and around. […]

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  • Afternoon stroll

    Today I upgraded my iPhone to a 5s, and I took it along when I walked my dog to try out the camera. Here’s just a taste of the beauty I encountered in a mile-long walk around my neighborhood.

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  • Empty beach

    “If you could zoom through space in the speed of light, what place would you go to right now?” That’s the question for today’s Writing 101 Challenge, A Room with a View. This is an easy one to answer: if I could be anywhere right this minute, it would be on an empty beach in […]

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  • A fascinating look back at the Austin I first learned to love, as my first visit to my now hometown was right around the time they filmed Slacker, and I moved here shortly thereafter.

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  • Oops!

    Blogging challenges are difficult at the best of times.

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  • Oh how I relate… writing is hard work! Somehow, though, in my case, even though I had a pile of life happening, my stubborn streak has kept me going, and I’m just around 3K shy of my goal.

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