- Up early enough to catch the pretty little earthshiney waning fingernail moon rising.
- You can sometimes really get a sense of how people are by how they travel and act at the airport. I spent seven years of my life traveling at least every other week. I spend my time at the airport people watching. Yes, I’m watching you as you walk past me in a ( Read more... )

We went to Vegas this past week and I dragged hubsand out to Valley Of Fire State Park for a little hiking. We didn’t get near enough time to really dive into it deeply, but we did make it to the hike out to the Fire Wave.

The skies were cloudy and looking dismal most of the day and I didn’t have high hopes for a good sunset, but the sun ducked ( Read more... )

- SPARKLERS! The best part of fireworks holidays!

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- Sunrises, sunsets.

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Much of this year has been spent rebuilding slowly from the inside out, trying to replace bad habits with better ones and reconnecting with myself. Aside from the trip up north to see my sister for the birth of my nephew, I didn’t leave the state of Texas this year, and didn’t once get on a plane. It was a year of exploring locally, getting more ( Read more... )

While I didn’t pick up my “good” camera for damn near half the year, I snapped a lot of shots with my iPhone this year that I really enjoyed. I got into Instagram, and while it’s not necessarily high art by any means, I enjoy the bite-sized nature of the shots there. I took on a photo-of-the-day challenge sometime back in mid-year, mostly to get me ( Read more... )

Every year, since 2003, I create a CD that was a compilation of my favorite music of that year, things that I listened to obsessively, songs that plucked my heartstrings, each song has its own story, weaving a thread through the tapestry of my year and meaning something significant to me.
Yes, it’s a weird mishmash of stuff that’s been filling my ( Read more... )

I powered through the last three hours of driving to Pittsburgh, and it was especially a slog after the sun went down. But I arrived in Pennsylvania and it felt familiar and comforting. I drove through the Fort Pitt Tunnel and arrived through the “front doors” of Pittsburgh, the city view laid out before me after bursting through the end of the ( Read more... )

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