Visible Woman

Remember when having a picture of something involved film? Remember the furor over instant photography where the film developed right afte...

One of the great things about retirement is just getting up on a Friday and doing whatever you please. Of course, you are influenced by a lo...

[Thanks to Off the Wall, a cool SoCo shop for this reflection shot.] I find things to worry about. From the ridiculous to the sublime. What ...

We only deal in narrative, really. Oh, we think we are about emotions and feelings and such: love, hate, sadness, desire, curiosity, learnin...

Is this a cigarette machine? Yes and no. Yeah, candy cigarettes. I took this at Big Top on South Congress, of course working hard to get my ...

Yes, faithful reader (or is it readers today as in more than one?) you have followed my fashion emergencies in this space before. Here and ...

I appear to be intently waiting for my subject to give me the right expression. Only, I am the subject. Me and some inanimate objects. This ...

It's not usually obvious which shop is used for my reflective art, but in this one you can see that I've co-oped Austin Art Glass (S...

On Thursday we were down on South Congress taking some info to the CPA. We also grabbed some lunch and wine at Enoteca as dilettantes are wo...

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a front page story about high-end stores and brands infiltrating (for want of a better word) smalle...

This is a shot of some junk on offer a couple of years ago at, I believe, Uncommon Objects on South Congress. Here are some thoughts I'v...

My life is going well as the summer winds down. We have a few social things going on but some free nights, too. We've finished with one ...

Sunday we were visiting the South Congress area. Some businesses have moved or folded and the ones occupying space keep tending to the upper...

Yes...a brand new picture from my favorite shop window...that of Uncommon Objects on South Congress, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. And there I am, i...

I had a little setback over the weekend. It was supposed to be a weekend of catching up on things and enjoying the nice weather. You can rea...

The Texas Book Festival is this weekend. FFP volunteered with Badgerdog Publications yesterday but all I did was go with him to an evening...