Visible Woman

It's not bad enough that you are reading a blog that already (before this one) has 99 entries labeled 'downsizing.' Yesterday I ...

At least the photo is not another shop window. It's FFP with his reflection at Jeffrey's bar. (Which is remodeling. The tile murals ...

Okay, this picture. I took it of my left hand in the summer because I got this bruise that looked, well, like an 'old lady' bruise. ...

Photo taken at a ceramics store on Burnet Road on Saturday. I have to make it quick this morning, limiting the time that I allow myself to ...

This picture was just taken yesterday. (I know, you're welcome, not that you can tell much difference from my recycled shop window pix.)...

When your shoelaces break, when a small hole or two starts to develop in your sweatshirt, there is that 'ah, gee' thing you experien...

I watched intently as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Rafa Nadal yesterday. (What an inspired match from the Frenchman.) Every time I see Rafael...

In 1952 someone snapped a picture of my dad and his mother and all his siblings. Dad is third from the left. In 2008, yesterday, Dad had a d...

This was taken a little over a week ago, peeking into the hole for the new Austonian condos. (Much fun has been made of the name since we c...

No. It's not hard to write about shop windows. Sometimes family and love are a little difficult. But...money. Yeah, that's a tough o...

I like my dad's youngest sister and the man she married. Because of their fierce independence and their willingness to keep going and co...

[Picture is from September 2006, Design within Reach Store, Austin.] Note cool hairdo (not). And yet, no gray. I love seeing my family. Esp...

Digital photos are cheap to keep. You can buy a terabyte of network storage for less than $300. This was a little bookstore in some town in ...

Last time I visited Portland I snapped this picture in, obviously, Powell's City of Books. This section had books on toys and and couple...

This photo is almost four years old. The shop is Tesoros Trading on Congress. I think the store is still there although they've also op...

My friend the playwright treated me to lunch yesterday (we take turns) and while we discussed his upcoming reading and Frontera Fest entry ...

FFP was shooting some pictures at a party last night for potential use in the neighborhood newspaper to which he contributes his weekly writ...

A reflection at the Austin Java City Hall Cafe. Enhanced with software. Since we are deep in the downsizing here, touching everything and de...

Photo was taken this morning on Congress. It's a reflection in the window of the sales office for the 21C Museum Condominiums. The soft ...

Actual (paraphrased) conversation from, I think, yesterday: Himself: Should we just get rid of the flamingos? Herself: Eventually, but not r...