Taco time!

We walked over to this delightful food truck which specializes in tacos the other day. The fried avocado tacos were delicious. Turns out that the owner's family is related to mine.

Big music truck

This 18-wheeler was parked near the Austin Music Hall the other night. The sign on the side kind of lurched out of the darkness.

RockabillIE music!

Elizabeth McQueen provided the tunes at the grand opening of a new ballroom at the Hyatt on a recent night.

Old car, hip look

Here's a great-looking car we saw in front of Nau's Drugstore the other day.

Wayback politics

They had to dig hard to find this one-- plus a Hello Kitty to balance it out.

Retro Tennis

Last Saturday Westwood Country Club had a wooden racket tournament and our head pro went all out with retro short shorts and head band. I didn't participate. An old lady (me) playing on a clay court with other 'women of a certain age' is retro enough.

Tending the Wounded

In this shot you see more of the scene from the Vietnam Veterans memorial. The soldier's arm from yesterday was that of the wounded soldier on the right. The designers intended him to be one of our South Vietnamese allies. However, he was later 'changed' to an Asian-American soldier. I read in the newspaper  recently that they didn't change all the elements of his uniform and, in fact, there are epaulets and other details that would mark it as a South Vietnamese uniform. The reason for changing it to an Asian-American was to complete the ethnic tableau of the soldiers.  White, black, Hispanic, Native American were already represented. (I have to confess, I just saw soldiers.) There was also the issue that this monument was about Texans who died. Dog tags with the names of the dead are entombed in the monument.