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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes

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Here’s what “stuck in traffic” looks like to me. Somehow my lot in life is to be behind a larger vehicle anytime traffic is slower than normal or stopped. I can’t see ahead to figure out if I should change lanes or not. Usually I don’t, only to find that when the larger vehicle in front of me changes lanes, I’m then right behind the traffic hazard (stalled vehicle, emergency vehicle, etc.).

Photo of a utility truck

The view in traffic

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This is my view when I take my morning break and walk around the Texas Capitol grounds. Beautiful trees: a pink crape myrtle against the backdrop of a majestic pecan tree.

Two Trees, Pink and Green

Two Trees, Pink and Green

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My view of the night sky. I took this photo on Monday, 24 June 2013, early in the morning as I walked to my office building. I took a moment to appreciate this chance encounter.

Moon and Texas Capitol

Moon and Texas Capitol

Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

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Whole Foods Market cheese display (downtown Austin, Texas).

Whole Foods Market cheese display

Say Curvy Cheese!

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A meditative spot in the Casa de Luz garden (Austin, Texas).

A meditation area at Casa de Luz

Cool and calm.

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Texas Boys State parade 2013, wending its way around the Texas Capitol.

Texas Boys State Parade 2013

Texas Boys State Parade

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

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Blooms are beautiful and in the blink of an eye, they are gone.

A Bradford Pear tree in bloom

Bradford Pear along Lady Bird Lake

Mexican Red Bud tree in bloom

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 in bloom

Purple Sage

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

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Just don’t even think about going in with a bad attitude!

A sign saying leave bad attitudes in the trash can

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.

A sign saying that violators will be electrocuted

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!

A sign with a pun: Planet of the Grapes; It was fresh produce all along.

Sour grapes?

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

Weekly Photo Challenge: Background

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A view of a statue on the Texas Capitol grounds. (Look through the windows.)

A statue seen through 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.

Hummingbird and bird feeders outside a bay window

Susan’s Nature Channel

Everything is green on the Texas Capitol grounds with the recent rain.

Westgate Tower, across from the Texas Capitol

Westgate Tower, looking across the Texas Capitol grounds

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