Porch Decor

Love this friendly and colorful décor on a front porch in Hyde Park. 

 

Nice and neat

 On a fall day, the folks in this home had done a great job of raking their leaves. 

Gumbo

 

I love the signature gumbo at The Headliners Club. 

Meal With A View

 

Nice meal last night with friends at The Headliners Club. 

The Reader

 This fellow hangs out in downtown Austin. 
He is usually reading a book or writing in a journal and never says a word to anyone else. . 

Non alcoholic

 A friend of ours has had to stop drinking and he has bought an array of fancy mocktail ingredients. 

Oysters Rockefeller

 

These oysters really made the meal the other night at The Austin Club. Tasty!

At The Austin Club

 

We decided to have dinner by ourselves last night. We shared a lot of stories.

Great old restaurant

 Friends of mine outside their family restaurant on Guadalupe. 

Many people in town have been eating here for decades.

Art Bra -- On The Runway

 Here I am with a breast cancer survivor at Art Bra for the Breast Cancer Research Center.
This fundraiser's feature lets survivors of this disease struct their stuff
with custom designed outfits on a runway.
For our repeated donations to this cause, I was given the chance to be an escort for this woman. 

Lots of shops

 This little center on Airport Blvd has an eclectic array of stores and restaurants.

Wildflowers in town

 These friends of ours have a really pretty array of flowers in their Hyde Park yard. 

Pretty house

 I love this cute house in Hyde Park. 

Healthy food

 A delicious meze plate including dolmas and hummus at Arpeggio Grill. 

Another morning hike

 Linda took this shot of me as we headed out for a walk along the shore of Lady Bird Lake. 

From the Boardwalk

 A view of our skyline from the boardwalk along the south shore of Lady Bird Lake. 

More tall buildings! Now!

Lots of office and residential buildings going up in downtown Austin. I hope that they can fill them.

 

Roast Chicken and Beet Salad

 Nice combo at the restaurant around the corner. 

Willie Nelson and His Guitar, Trigger

This statue of Willie Nelson is always a hit with visitors to town.
He calls his guitar Trigger. 

 

Austin house in 1940

 Here is our family home when it was first built in 1940. That is my mother on the front porch.
It is now in Central Austin. Back then, that was far north. 

Easter Memory

 Me -- in 1951 or so at a downtown Austin department store. 

Missing Pieces

Saw these on the ground the other day during a walk. Too bad for the puzzle solvers. 

 

Kite Flight

 Lots of cool kites at the Annual Festival in Zilker Park the other day. 

Amen.

 The conservatives in our state have a problem with a lot of

books that don't suit their view of the world. 

Tarot 101

 An easy-to-use version of the Tarot deck. Could be useful. Saw this in the Toy Joy window. 

Amaryllis in the morning.

 Saw these pretty flowers in the yard of the house that belongs to our friends Peter and Jack.
They keep such a nice yard. 

Lou Ann Barton

 Lou Ann Barton took a turn at the microphone the other night as well. 

Ruthie Foster

 Ruthie Foster always gives a great performance.

She sang a couple of numbers at the History Center concert.

Blissing to the blues

 This pretty friend of ours used to be the anchorwoman for a local TV station's news show.

The other night, she was enjoying a concert with us. 

Theme Day -- Toys

My first real musical instrument is my favorite toy.

I'd call it a toy, because it gave me so much pleasure.
I loved playing this harmonica so much.