Last bluebonnet post. : )

Hope you haven’t missed me too much the last few days (okay, weeks) but things have been hectic.  Hopefully I can get back into the swing of blogging before too long.

Enjoy the last bluebonnet!

As some of you may have noticed, I missed last Friday’s post. This Friday maybe a repeat of that. My apologies in advance. Life is sure busy here. : )

Otherwise, we’re still in the bluebonnet theme for Tuesdays. Here’s a more detailed shot than the others I’ve shown here so far. If you look closely, you can even see some of the wildlife (aka bugs) that live around bluebonnets.

I love bluebonnets. : ) I don’t think I could have a prettier state flower (well, unless I could have a daisy or sunflower… but I shouldn’t admit it, being a born and bred Texan).

Happy Tuesday! : )

Another shot of those bluebonnets in the cemetery.

It’s bluebonnet time in Texas. : )  They started blooming probably 3 weeks ago… I’ve always been a bluebonnet fan, yes, partially due to Texas pride, but also just because they’re so pretty.

There’s a lovely field of flowers in Hatchel Cemetery.  The juxtaposition of tombstones & the lovely flowers (including blue bonnets, those pink flowers you can see in the image, sunflowers, irises, and more) is both beautiful and solemn.

I’ll be posting more blue bonnet/flower images that I took in that cemetery over the next few weeks.

Happy Tuesday!

PS Thank you, Uncle Jeff, for telling me about it & how to get there! : )

I really love cacti.  They’re pretty & oh-so-deserty.  Oh, and they’re hardy little plants, so I’m pretty sure that’s why they’ve survived our oddly cold winter. So, add a spider web to that coolness and I’m a happy girl. Spider webs are very pretty, delicate and skillful. Of course, I hate the spider part, but the webs are pretty. So I was super excited to take this image:

Did you get a good look? When I downloaded this pretty little thing & pulled it up to get a look bigger than my 2 inch LCD screen I realized that the friendly spider not only made it into the photo, he (or she) brought along a helpless little fly friend.  Neat, right? Even neater is the fact that I didn’t know that creepy arachnid was there, so I didn’t even have to go to the trouble of freaking out while getting a pretty shot. Yay!  : )

Have a lovely (real) spider-free Tuesday.

Okay, so remember this post where I said we almost never get snow?  Well, we got some!  On Christmas Eve (after it fell, my family drove to the desert for Christmas… I was sad to see the snow vanish), but a few days later we got a sprinkling of flakes again.  We got more snow on Christmas Eve when I had to drive away, but twice in 2 weeks is pretty good!  : )  Anyway, here’s my documentation of some snow… here, in Abilene… who would have guessed?

Look, you can totally see a snowflake falling!  : )

Footprints in the Snow.

I’m super happy with the water droplets.  Pretty, yeah?

The only downside to the entire experience was the realization that I have NO snow-proof shoes… so now I’m on the search for cute galoshes that also fit me… because I can wear them when it rains, too, instead of only twice every few years, lol.  If you know where to get some, let me know!

Oh, and by the way, Happy New Year!  Hope you have a fun celebration planned.

I’m a bit behind on posting (again) but in my defense, it’s holiday time & my husband’s final crunch time (for at least 2 weeks) and I’ve been trying to help him get his work done. I’m his “typing bot”, haha, because when he gets his ideas going, he dictates to me & I avoid his love of typos. : )

Otherwise, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my husband’s side of the family (I’ll have a picture or two of the cuteness that is my nephew Tyson to post soon). Yummy turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, that’s right, all of the goodies.  And my pumpkin cheesecake came out right this time! : ) I also got to try some Apricot White Chocolate bread… it was awesome!  Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for food.

Also, on Saturday & Sunday, we got to see my side of the family when they came back through for a bit.  Noah has gotten bigger, for sure. 3 months already. And he opens his eyes up *really* wide when he’s watching something specific – including the wall.  It’s so cute!  I can’t wait until he starts to talk… (I admit it, that’s one of my favorite ages, who can resist those half-formed words?)

Well, I have a paper to proof for my husband (on Thomas Aquinas, yikes!)…

Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday!

Squares.  I like square images.  : )  I’m so used to shooting rectangles (exactly 4×6) that its nice to sit down & look at a picture in different proportions.

I felt like playing with Textures a little bit this morning, too.  : )  Although not Thanksgiving-related, I think prickly pears are pretty awesome (in fact, I like most kinds of cactus as long as they keep their distance).  And, if the Pilgrims had landed in Texas instead of Massachusetts, we’d probably have a traditional dish of Prickly Pear Jelly instead of Cranberry Sauce.  ; )

This afternoon, I’m going to make my second attempt at Pumpkin Cheesecake (from scratch).  The first one was a bit undercooked & my husband & I ate around the edges where it was cheesecake-y but the middle was still too raw & with un-cooked eggs, I went ahead & threw it away.  But I’m doing it a second time & will up the cook time (I’ve started to wonder if my oven is a little colder than other peoples?  Most recipes need me to add cook time or the center is a little gooey).  Otherwise, all the other Thanksgiving cooking is going to be managed by my sweet sister-in-law who is much braver than me, since I’m still a bit too afraid of my kitchen to take on an entire Thanksgiving meal!  : )

I won’t be posting anything else this week, since I’ll be with family.  Hopefully, you’ll be busy too & wouldn’t be able to check it anyway!  : )

I hope everyone has a yummy Thanksgiving!  : )

Well, I’ve moved. Blogger has been retired and all of my new posts are going to be here now.

If you’re a subscriber to my old blog, click the “Subscribe” button over on the side ( -> ) and you’ll get all of my fabulous new posts (including this one). : )

A few of my older posts aren’t here, so if you want them for some reason, you can still access my old blog. (Not as of 01/01/10… sorry, but hopefully this site will keep you occupied.)

Also, my comments from Blogger refused to come over which is part of why I’m making this move now (since I’ve had the Blogger account for only 6 months or so & it is a great beginning blog site). But I want everyone to feel free to comment up a storm & I won’t have to worry about loosing all of your wonderful interaction with me. : )

So enjoy! I hope you like the new layout. I do. I think it’s very clean & simple.

PS There maybe a few oddities as I learn the site & experiment. Let me know if you see any! : ) Thanks.

Oh, and, of course, a photo:

It was taken at the Windmill Museum here in Lubbock near Dunbar Park.

Just an additional note: with my new blog, I’ve also updated my Details & Contract.  If you haven’t already booked with me, check those out for update information! Link Actually, that link expired with the one above.  Instead, go up to the top of my blog, click on “Info” and then choose “Prices & Details” and go from there. : )

Well, I was out of town this weekend so I didn’t get any editing done for my fabulous & oh, so patient friends (you know who you are!).

However, I had a fantastic weekend! Chris & I went to visit my mom & I attended her “Grandmother’s Baby Shower”. I hadn’t heard of this idea before, but I think it’s both fun & practical so it has my approval. Since my beautiful sister-in-law, Caleb, & their little boy Noah, who is about 2 months from joining this side of the world, live a few hours from my mom, her friends at work threw her a party so she could gather some necessary items to have at her house for little Noah’s arrival & visits.

This duck works not only as an ice cream holder, but also can be used as a baby bath tub. Cute, right?

Some (literally) yummy details!

This is a list of names for “grandmother” from other countries.

Here’s my sweet mother mocking me because I had trouble getting pictures with her eyes OPEN! : )

Yes, she’s playing with a teddy bear puppet.
Doesn’t she look like the best grandmother?

A lovely “Sock Corsage”, again, I’d never heard of it, but I thought it was adorable!

One last little detail.

Obviously not the baby shower. We visited the HSU campus so I played with perspective shots. Just because. I can. : )

These last two are just the gorgeous lighting as we were headed to visit my mom & the sky line of West Texas! I love Texas. : )