I love musicals! On Friday night, S. and I had the pleasure of going to see Annie! I was also anxious to finally get a look at the new Bass Concert Hall, with it’s $14.7 million dollar facelift completed. What a difference! It […]
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Figure On A Trunk
The Bass Concert Hall in Austin, TX currently has a collection of 30 sculptures on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are scattered around the grounds and inside the newly renovated lobby. The sculpture directly in front of the main entrance quickly grabs your attention. For fun we tried to […]
Once In A Lifetime Oil Painting
In the Fall of 2005 I took an oil painting class. I had seen an advertisement posted in Hobby Lobby. The ad gave the name and phone number of an instructor that taught the painting techniques of the “old masters”. Old Masters? Wow. I signed up. I would never have guessed […]
Giant Sunflower Countdown
I planted my sunflowers about the same time I started this blog. In fact, one of my earliest posts was about how my daughter helped me plant them and saw the first sprouts after a rain shower. I remember looking forward to taking some photos of them when they opened. And now, the first […]
Christmas in June
I’ve been going through and cleaning out hundreds of photos from my recycle bin. Today I came across some photos from our first church art exhibit last Christmas. I had forgotten all about these photos! I had put them on my FB page during the holidays, deleted them after New Year’s, and […]
Tic-Tac-Toe for One
Lately, my 7 year old has been coming to me with heavy sighs, saying pitifully,” I’m bored, I don’t know what to do.” Now, this is something new and not at all normal for her. […]
Photography Practice
All the photography articles I’ve been reading lately have said late afternoon/sunset is the best lighting for outdoor shots. So I set out to take some pictures on one of the trails in our neighborhood right around 8 o’clock. My daughter agreed to be the subject. I envisioned a woodland musician, with […]
Psalm 4:6
New Comrades
We headed out to the local library today. Our home library does not contain a set of encyclopedias, so we were forced to pursue public resources for some of our school work this week. My 7th grader also needed a book on market bubbles. More on that later. As we entered […]