Archive for March, 2004
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
Bugs and Bonnets
I stopped by the post office this afternoon and met these fellows in a patch of bluebonnets. They were kind enough to pose for me. (Sony DSC-T1, cropped but not corrected.)
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
A Red-Winged Blackbird and Some Old Pictures
Getting a cargo mat for the van wound up taking two days because I wanted one that matched the vehicle’s interior. I would have taken the black instead of the gray but I knew R. would grumble. The nice guy in the Parts Department said he could get one over here from Plano in a [...]
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Another Empty Chair
An old hunting buddy of mine passed away yesterday. I’ve been sitting here trying to recall the last time I saw E.H. and it may have been at Papa’s funeral. I remember E. and his wife coming in that Sunday morning with an enormous brisket. People had been bringing food steadily but most of it [...]
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Monday, March 29th, 2004
Tra-la-la
Spending a couple of quiet hours in the museum Friday set the tone for the weekend here at Casa Eclectic. Even our next-door neighbor, the Empress, who has been miffed with me since the War of the Pool, spoke to me from her car Saturday as I unloaded groceries. I just did restrain myself from [...]
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Sunday, March 28th, 2004
Every Year When the Taxes Come Due
After our Friday outing to the Modern Art Museum R. spent most of yesterday recuperating, which gave me time to get our tax materials in order and ready to go to the accountant who had begun to make threatening noises. As always the actual task of assembling the stuff was not nearly so bad as [...]
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
Planning To Sleep Late
Since I have plans to sleep late in the morning, I offer for your entertainment an album of photographs taken Friday afternoon at the Modern Art Museum. This was my first time to play with the tiny 5 megapixel DSC-T1 in the non-flash environment of the museum, so these photo are the product of experiments [...]
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Friday, March 26th, 2004
Where There’s Smoke
Up at the east end of the driveway I can hear the carpenters’ hammers as they gut the big house on the corner and start over again. The same couple lived there for years, raising their kids in the sprawling brick ranch with the obnoxious avocado green trim. She died a couple of years ago [...]
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Friday, March 26th, 2004
Slow Hunting Lately
It’s been slow hunting of late for vanity license plates but I just posted eleven new shots at the beginning of the Secret Code of the Road gallery.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2004
Happy Birthday, Papa
Today would have been Papa’s 83rd birthday. Last year on this date I shared stories about Papa as a little boy, his mischievous streak, and the last birthday he spent on this earth – having the back surgery that hastened his death. Until I flipped back to that post I didn’t remember saying those things [...]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
What Was I Saying
. . . about forums? These are only some of the bumper stickers on the back of a car I followed to Central Market this afternoon.
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