Visible Woman

Hard as it is to believe, we closed on our condo a year ago. So one year downtown? Wow. It's true that we didn't sell our house unti...

Generalizations are dangerous. Everyone is sitting at a different juncture, looking out at certain things and interacting with the people an...

No, not a fire. But this sunrise in the chilled water steam looks more like a fire than the last post, even, huh? I don't have anything ...

This is a picture of a vacant lot in the Rainey Street neighborhood. A careful look (maybe blow it up ) shows our building in the distance. ...

The good news about the New Year's Eve celebrations is they are just festive with no gift exchange and religious overtones. The bad news...

By rights I ought to feel silly pointing to this building (shot here reflected in the pond north of the Palmer Events Center) and saying ...

Take the time to look around. Take the time to enjoy your leisure. Even if you are using the 'free' time to clean your house and fre...

One really needs to take time to notice one's luck. To remind oneself that even when a day seems filled with things that don't work ...

Lots of people are looking for hope these days...including this graffiti artist who thoughtfully put a message going both ways on the hike a...

Well, if the drilling in the next room was worrying me yesterday and I'd found a few things to complain about that guaranteed I was goin...

What makes a home anyway? We've been 'living' in the condo off and on, mostly on, since June 2. Almost two months. I guess if yo...

It's been eight days since I was visible here. You are looking at a dark place. I've been in a state of euphoria or a dark place, sw...

Things are changing so fast for us now. Downtown we are living a temporary lifestyle, sleeping on a sleeper sofa, using a laptop; the two be...

We were walking across a little plaza where Third Street ends going West. Part of someone's shattered rear view mirror was there. I shot...

The blur in this photo is the UT rowing team flashing by on Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake to you old timers). When we announced our intention to...

We stopped by to check on my dad today. When he finishes newspapers he tosses them on a chair next to his. Same with junk mail, anything des...

We came back to the condo and did a few chores and decided to relax 'a minute' and faced our chairs to the windows and watched some ...

Until, say, the middle of August we will be living part time at the condo under a "temporary quarters" arrangement. Our custom bed...

I shot this picture out the window at the south end of the hallway at the condo. I was standing there the other day and realized that one co...

Yesterday a friend of ours closed her condo. She called me on her cell and I stepped out on our balcony to see her peering through the raili...