A few more flowers around the house.
Passion Flower (domesticated)
Passion Flower (wild)
Honeysuckle in bloom
Honeysuckle, tastes as good as it smells
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Category Archives: Photographs
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
Blooms are beautiful and in the blink of an eye, they are gone.
Bradford Pear along Lady Bird Lake
Mexican Red Bud
Whenever I see Purple Sage in bloom, I think of Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, published in 1912. Then I think of the band Riders of the Purple Sage. Then I think of the story Spiders of the Purple Mage by Philip José Farmer in Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn (1980), one of the Thieves’ World books. One thing leads to another …
Purple Sage
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
Just don’t even think about going in with a bad attitude!
A sign with an attitude
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I was real careful when I went to take this photo because I don’t work at that complex.
Careful where you step or ride
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At Trader Joe’s in Houston. Yep, when I travel to the big city, I’m all about going grocery shopping. Just one wild and crazy woman!
Sour grapes?
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
Weekly Photo Challenge: Background
A view of a statue on the Texas Capitol grounds. (Look through the windows.)
A memorial statue
I visited with my friend Susan Miller recently. She lives in a heavily-wooded area that she appropriately named The Nature Channel. There was constant activity at the hummingbird and bird feeders while I was there: chickadees, cardinals, white wing doves, a roadrunner, a male and female ladder back woodpecker, hummingbirds, squirrels, bees. In this photo there is a squirrel at one feeder and some doves at the other.
Susan’s Nature Channel
Everything is green on the Texas Capitol grounds with the recent rain.
Westgate Tower, looking across the Texas Capitol grounds
Weekly Photo Challenge: Background
Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
Escape. One of the places I go to be a tourist is Houston, Texas, taking advantage of what the big city offers.
The Art Car Museum is a good place to start.
Tired and Feathered by Joe Haden of Crockett, Texas
The Beer Can House is interesting. Yes, those are all beer cans and beer can tabs.
Beer Can House
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston was my main destination for this trip, to see the Picasso Black and White exhibit. No photos were allowed of the exhibit, but here is a sort-of cubism photo of the building.
Picasso Black and White
Other exhibits in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston are attention-worthy and photographs are allowed. Here is a sarcophagus panel from the 2nd century A.D.
Panther from a sarcophagus, 2nd century A.D.
And when all is said and done and I’m exhausted, I find respite on a tree-lined path across from the museum. Cool and serene.
Tree-lined and serene
Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
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