Visible Woman

Gift-buying and gift-getting are as ethereal as this picture, a reflection of the Top Drawer thrift store window on Burnet Road. Christmas. ...

I think we look for pleasure in large gulps. People around me are doing it and sometimes me, too. We want the grand trip, the expensive car...

Visible? Not so much. That's the main conundrum of my life. I like to be out there in cyberspace telling the details of every minute of ...

A couple of years ago I read this great article. I wish I could cite it properly or even, were it possible, hyperlink you to it. I looked i...

I love daily bloggers. You can count on them to give you a little lift with their writing. Hardly the day passes that I don't check for ...

Cranberry this and that, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, green salad, spinach casserole, relishes, dressings,...

Anybody out there hungry for The Visible Woman postings? Anyone thinking "Gee, my December isn't busy enough...what I need to be ab...

The graffiti in this picture apparently refers to the latest show at AMOA (Austin Museum of Art) but I took it on the sidewalk at one of t...

Well, I drink a lot of coffee. It's time-consuming: the making, sipping, savoring and, if you make it at home, the cleaning. Yesterday ...

Part of our on again/off again downsizing is that we are sorting through the books. I'm tentatively identifying books that get to stay, ...

It's not cold out. A little chilly maybe. I tossed on a sweatshirt this morning. I didn't wear it to play tennis but put it on again...

The city-hired construction workers digging...now that's scary. The mess may keep the Trick or Treaters away, too. We have mini-Tootsie ...

I used to do a lot of eXtreme dog walking and urban adventuring. These are sports my friend SuRu and I invented. eXtreme dw involves two peo...

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

I'm not taking pictures . I randomly selected a picture of a stranger taken in Berlin a few years back to illustrate this entry. The wom...

In the great downsizing of 2006, I keep telling myself that it's OK to let go. There is more stuff where this stuff came from. Maybe eve...

I have probably read seventy books since I retired. But it's been four years. I don't feel like I read enough. Going through our boo...

I've been reading Paris Daily Photo for a while and while this site isn't daily and isn't always Austin so it can't be Aust...

I fancy myself a creative person. In fact, when I took these pictures (over a year ago) I thought I was showing on the one hand the most bl...

These guys were caught by a street photographer. It's probably sometime in the 30's. On the left is my father-in-law and on the righ...