Fences

Peace

I love sitting by the water.  The other day I wandered over to Benbrook Lake and sat on the shore for a while.

Buggy Ties

Horse Track

I went out wandering today, and came upon an old horse racing track.  The nice, old guy that runs the place let me wander around and take some pictures.  He had raised and trained race horses for over 50 years.

Old Car

If anyone wants to help me out with what kind it is...

Courthouse

Clarendon, Texas

Old Texas Windmill 2

Old Texas Windmill

Silhouette

Wreaths

White Christmas

Clarendon Murals

Clarendon, Texas

On the fourth day of Christmas...

On the third day of Christmas...

maybe ISO 3200 isn't worth the bother...

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

(still having fun with the new lens.)

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

a new lens for my camera.

What's that?

Return of the Trumpet

Winter in Texas

= early fall in the North.

Christmas lights part 3

Downtown Ft Worth has a giant Christmas Tree each year (I hear).  I loved the lights.

Christmas lights part 2

Christmas lights

Christmas Break D-9 (day -9)

We are starting out the Christmas break with a negative number because I'm not technically on break today, but being sick did nicely correlate with car repairs and a no-lectures day so here I am.
6:05  Wake up with a start due to very kind husby attempting to take snoring wife back to bed from semi-comfy couch. 
6:15  Gave up on sleep and did the whole getting ready for the day thing....DRAAAT car won't start.  Guess I left something on/open/whatever over the weekend.  Attempt to sit patiently until Justin can jump car for me.  Discover that Hulu+ membership allows me to watch old episodes of crappy cop dramas...oh this is going to be a good Christmas.  Justin kindly does not make fun of me while standing in the frigid wind getting my car running.  May owe him cookies.
9:00  Drop off car to have minor oil leak repaired (yay warranty!) and get a ride home with nice shuttle driver guy with a healthy sense of humor.   Ambitiously attempt to vacuum frighteningly large number of pine needles from carpet only to discover that little is occurring other than rearrangement of aforementioned needles.  Disassemble vacuum, lodge screwdriver in vacuum while attempting to dislodge pine needles.  Day is saved by mad grad-school learned problem solving skills. Elsa held down the pesky hose.

9:45  After clogging/unclogging the vacuum a second time, decide it is time to call in the big guns:

10:00 Vacuuming finally complete, I empty dishwasher.  Concerned that I may just spend the whole day cleaning (house could use it) I sit down and have a WWJD (what would Josiah do) moment.  Q:  Sick and taking the day off, would Josiah clean the house.  A:  Probability approximately 1:1000.  (non-zero largely due to husband's mad skills with a washing machine).  Time to return to the crappy cop dramas.  Adios!

Christmas dogs (part 2)

Josiah was talking to Elsa.  I love the look on her face.

Christmas dogs (part 1)

The christmas tree is in their laying place.  Eureka!  Looks like we are getting lots of cute pictures of the dogs next to the christmas tree this year. :-D

Crystals from the waste

I left some waste chemicals from lab to dry.  These are the result.

Yup the only thing I've photographed lately is the dogs...

Take that physics

Part Bear?

Go to your happy place

Screeching to a halt

In the lead:

Uh oh, the house is closer than I thought!

Limestone grave marker

Went to Celina TX to see a balloon festival.  Turns out there was too much wind, so we explored a little.  A small cemetery was nearby.

Go left or go right?

Celina, Texas

I'm starting to think that tI'll just make a collection of murals from small towns.

Inspired by...

The idea for this photo came from a wonderful picture of daisies taken by Jen.

The ballet of the ball

Nose

THE BALL GOT AWAY!!!!

Commitment to the game

Playing ball

Julie (our blue heeler) is passionate about playing ball.  I tried to capture some of her passion this evening using sport mode...(for the first time).  Clearly, I have some learning to do. On top of the list is figuring out how to better manage the focus.  It spent most of its time pulling the fence or the bricks into brilliant clarity.  

Here are some of the pictures.

Doggies in a box

Julie in a box.

Elsa in a box.

We were trying to convince Julie that it was ok to hop into the box.  However, when we tried to do this, Elsa happily hopped into the box and looked expectantly for a treat.  Eventually, we got Julie in a box.  We are down a lot of treats now.