September Photo 13

On our way home, we stopped in Glen Rose to take this picture. I hadn't noticed this statue in the courthouse square before. This is a representation of Juana and Charles, the first settlers in Glen Rose.

September Photo 10

Mom's hens and chicks are putting out a flower---and a few more to come. We spent some time in the beautiful cool temperatures on the patio in Granbury.

September Photo 8

We hit the road for Hurricane Ike. The kids were out Friday, and I woke up early and packed. We went north and west to my Mom and Dad's. At that time, they were saying it would be 80 MPH winds and certain power outages.

August Photo 22

This one was snapped by B as we left Waco on Thursday evening. I was picking up the kids from my parents. We met halfway between our homes and ate dinner. B snapped it, but I asked her to! ;-) I was driving at the time. This was looking into the big storm we were about to drive into.

Also on the way home---the shot that got away. We saw a burning telephone pole. At first, I thought it was like a smokestack thing you see at plants around the coast---I don't know why those things are burning off gasses or something. Someone can leave me a comment and explain that to me. But then on second glance, I thought it was a burning cross. Anyway, it was storming bad at that time and I just couldn't pull over for that one.

August Photo 21

I saw this on the way to waco. It was just south of Regan on Hwy 6. I heard on the radio they had had 6 to 8 inches of rain there earlier in the day.

On the way home, I had to drive through another rainstorm that was brutal. Fortunately, I made it through and got home safely. It was a good 45 minutes of white knuckles, though!

August Photo 20

Action shot---B throwing the frisbee for MaryAnn, my parents' dog.
A jacket outdoors? In August? In Texas? Can you believe that? She didn't really need it, but she'd been wearing it inside the house.

August Photo 12

This is a picture of the Youth building where we were having our conference. It's a church first, and the school is in the buildings surrounding it. This building is a separate building just for the youth---high school and junior high. And this is only one of the fabulous rooms they have. Outside, they have a covered basketball court. There's a jeep in the building, a snack bar area (where they could serve food if they needed to, not like a real restaurant or anything), fun decorations like Star Wars and super heroes, and one big room with a stage. It was a dream youth building!

August Photo 11

What animal do you think of when you see these chairs?

I got to go to a Christian Educator's conference the 8th and 9th, and I spent the night in Houston. Our hotel was really nice, and I got to get to know a few of my co-workers much better. My principal has a degree in applied Clarinet. Isn't that interesting? And she has a child and his family in Memphis. (An aside to my grandmother---they attended the Highland Street congregation, isn't that close to home?) I rode down there with our 2nd grade teacher who's probably 12 years my junior. But we're a lot a like! ;-)

Now what animal did you think of? I thought "giraffe," while the other ladies around me thought "cow." Is that my non-native Texan roots showing?

July Photo 29

This is the courthouse in the town of Bastrop, in Bastrop county. They have some pecan groves on the outskits of town, and there were many pecan trees planted out front, blocking my clean line of sight. (The pecan tree IS the state tree of Texas.) I was having trouble getting a shot of the building itself because of these trees, probably planted a long time ago. Well, these in this photo are skinny! But the bigger ones are all along the sidewalk, provinding a great shade.

July Photo 5

Here's what I like about hometown parades---the band!
Actually the band was really small. They can't make the students attend a parade in the summer----at least that was how it was when I was in. But also, there were several instrument-playing kids on another float---the local Democratic Party float!

July Photo 4

Here's J! I took this one before the parade in Granbury. Mom and Dad treated us to sitting at a restaurant along the route, with breakfast! The food was good---Mexican breads and egg/sausage/potato breakfast tacos. Yummy!
Three Stooges suspenders borrowed from Poppa.

July Photo 3

This is my best fireworks shot that really had some red, white and blue in it. :-) Lovely show, once again, by the shores of Lake Granbury!

July Photo 2

This one is only red, white, and blue because Dad is a little red in the face playing his valve trombone. We enjoyed going to his concert this Fourth of July.

May Photo 23

I'm posting this a day ahead of the date---photo 23 on day 22. But I've just had some good photos lately. Since that weekend, I've barely even picked up a camera.

This is at my parents' house, and B got to visit with her cousins---who were in TX from Utah. I wanted to pick a photo of the day with all three of them in it.

May Photo 22

This trip was so good, I thought it deserved at least a week's worth of photos! I took over 150, so this is whittled down to the best ones, I think.

To end this photographic adventure, I'll show you some of the animals we saw. The girl will probably remember the zebra who kind of snapped at us and the ostrich who came in the car with his neck, grabbed our animal food bag (almost empty, anyway!), and then left the vehicle with the bag on his head. It was too funny---after we got over the fright!

May Photo 21

This was most of our group looking for a certain type of chicken. I don't think we ever saw one! I really like these girls! :-)

May Photo 20

On the hike part of the day, we had binoculars and magnifying glasses. A Closer Look around our surroundings. :-)

May Photo 18

Part of Fossil Rim is a petting zoo. We were able to brush the animals in there---and they loved it! I love the tenderness of this girl with this animal.

May Photo 17

At breakfast time, we ate alongside the Paluxy River in Dinosaur Valley State Park. On the other side, there are dinosaur footprints, although with the water so high, it was hard to find them this morning. Nothing like a dunk in the water to get the morning going! Most everyone had wet pants when they got back across!

May Photo 16

This was the best photo I took---and almost the only one I took that day. We traveled with the Girl Scouts to Fossil Rim Wildlife Ranch near Glen Rose TX. When we got there, we were greeted with a fantastic sunset that Lis made sure we got a photo with.