To Paris and back: Day 1

We went to Paris this weekend — Paris, TX, that is! We left Austin around 11 AM, and got to our first stop around 4 PM — Manning Meadow, a 300 acre prairie near Wills Point. We didn’t have much daylight left, so we started right in! There were lots of windflowers blooming in white, […]

Playing around with iPhoto

I know everyone’s eagerly awaiting some photos and news from CHA — and it’s coming, I promise. I worked on it some tonight, should have it up tomorrow! In the meantime, I thought I’d post this picture from a workday we had at Indiangrass Preserve on Sunday. It was fun — about 30 people showed […]

More ice.

Woke up this morning to more ice — wow! Just had to take some pictures to share. Here’s the kitchen table — that’s a rose bush right outside the window. You can see the oak trees are all coated in ice and are leaning over the back fence. Some Lindheimer Senna seedpods: Switch grass: It […]

A new blog banner.

I’ve been working like crazy lately — had to take a break tonight — so I added this blog banner really quickly — still need to tweak the link colors and such. The photo was taken in the common room at the Indian Lodge in Davis Mountains State Park. The window was built by the […]

Bad luck comes in threes…

…so now I’m safe, right? First the hard drive on my MacBook crashed. Most everything was backed up, just lost some photos and 3 songs (there’s that number again!). Went to the Apple Store on Sat to get the hard drive replaced. Spent New Year’s eve/day getting everything reinstalled. Then we had two hardware problems […]

Vacation Day #1: Snow!

Howdy all! Jason and I are back from our vacation in the Davis Mountains in west Texas. We had a ton of fun — we went hiking every day except for one “rest day” when we went on another adventure — more on that later. We left Austin on Friday, December 22 and drove to […]