There's a market for everything

Well, I thought I had seen it all. Now you can use an app and pay $2.00 for a Diet Coke, pulled from the back of a bike.

Table topper

TacoDeli has some fancy patterns on their table tops. I like this one especially.

Hot air, indeed! Lots of it!

 We were walking to dinner and got a photo of this hot air balloon inflated and showing its pretty colors. Spectacular.

We're getting into the act

These actors posed with us the other day in the park. Snazzy duds!

Costumes from Aeronauts

Here are some of the outfits actors in the film wore.

Movie time in our park!

A film about hot air balloons and the people who made them is in the theaters and by now, probably on Amazon Prime. They had a spectacular party in our nearby park the other day.

And a merry Christmas to all!

Our spectacular tree -- from our house to yours! Have a great Christmas.

Ain't that sweet!

I received these from a column subject of mine. She must have liked what I wrote about her!

A Gift for a Special Someone

The shop window at Mercury Design on West Second. Surely you can find the perfect gift here!

Checking His Messages

We were going around to look at the hotel decorations for the season when FFP took a break in the Four Seasons lobby to check his phone. Beautifully decorated tree!

All Balls Christmas

The ornaments are the balls are the ornaments at the Fairmont. Massive tree shapes from Christmas balls.

Japanese gingerbread

I love the international flavor of the gingerbread pieces at the Four Seasons this year.

More of our town

Here is a closeup of the gingerbread Austin at The Four Seasons. Even the graffiti on the bridge is correct

French Christmas

Yet another gingerbread town at The Four Seasons. Tres bien!

Gingerbread Austin!

Here you see our hometown all gingerbreaded up! How cool! The Four Seasons does it up right!

Four Seasons Christmas

The Four Seasons always goes all out for Christmas decor. Here you see a gingerbread town with a Mexican theme. 

Aren't we cute?

A young friend said that these two reminded her of us and she bought them for our home. Cute!

Sashimi on an antique plate

I love the way Lenoir plates its dishes. Sometimes they use period piece dishes like this one.

Not a good place to pitch a tent

Spotted this encampment beneath a bridge by our place. Since Shoal Creek can rise to a torrent in minutes, not such a good idea, in my opinion.

Book talk

Our friend Stephen Harrigan has written what may be the best ever history of our state. On a recent night, we went to the Central Library to hear him discuss his work. He is on the left.

Elias is blowing some hot licks.

Shot this one at Church on Monday on a recent night. Red Young was sitting in or B-3 organ.

Catching some winks between inks

We were waiting to go into a club the other night and saw this tattoo artist taking a snooze between customers in his shop.

Grouper on leeks

I had this delicious fish dish at June's All Day the other night. It was just perfect.

Good advice

Saw this on the ped bridge the other day. Yes, that is true.

Row, row, row.

In spite of the massive growth, we still have beautiful scenes like this to see each day.

Jazzing it up

Here you see our friend Kris Kimura on bass flute at Parker Jazz Club. He also owns the place. We love supporting this effort and the music is always good.

A quiet walk

We were on one of our usual treks through the dog park off West 9th and I caught this shot of Linda walking in front of me. We love our walks.

A to Z

Lots of good words here, in perfect order. Lots of good lessons here, too.

Caution!

This large reproduction from a Medieval Manuscript invites visitors into the Medieval Monsters show at the Blanton Museum. It's pretty amazing the depictions of monsters as cautionary tales or critters to be slain.

Rainbow

This gentleman was admiring the artwork at the Blanton Museum of Art recently. His hoodie is a reference, I'm guessing, to the rainbow flag. Indigo and Violet seem to have been subsumed by black? And the final square is the logo of the Human Rights Campaign. (A yellow equal sign on a blue background.) I almost used this for theme day yesterday, but decided on the other picture.

Over the Rainbow

This little girl used some of the flags being distributed at the Veterans Day Parade to enhance her fashionable outfit and her rainbow backpack. It's theme day at City Daily Photo. The theme is rainbow. Click here to see how other members responded to the theme.