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Feb 25 2010

Austin, TX

Winging my way south

I spent last week in Austin, TX, for the Educause Southwest Regional Conference 2010; I presented a session on “Using a Wiki to Keep Up with Evolving Training and Documentation Needs”.

Flying and I really don’t get along. My flight out got cancelled, so I got put on a later flight – meaning I missed my connecting flight, so I got to Austin about three hours after I was scheduled to. My last flight coming home was pretty terrible – delayed for two hours, super hot, and someone had been eating beans… and that’s before the bumpy descent and slam-into-the-runway landing. The hotel was okay, the food was expensive, and the whole trip had entirely too little of my Ryan. The conference itself was good, so it was worth going, but man… no more flying for me for a loooooong time!

I also made time to tour the Texas State Capitol; here are some photos:

Texas State Capitol

Rotunda in the Capitol

Hinges at the Capitol

St Elias Orthodox Church

Park next to the hotel

Sunset from my hotel window

More photos can be found on Flickr.

Jan 26 2010

A Visit Home

Geese

I visited my mother a few weekends ago, and had a chance to snap a few photos as Mom did her afternoon chores. These are, of course, also posted on my Flickr.

Mom with Aracauna Rooster

Mom with a Silver-Laced Wyandotte hen

Mom with the same hen

The geese

Once chores were done, we decided to make some tea to warm up. Mom had received a “flower tea” pot for Christmas, so she showed me how it works.

Flower Tea PodThis is a “pod”, dried tightly together. Once steeped in boiling water, it will blossom into a lovely, tasty arrangement.

Flower Tea

Flower Tea

Flower Tea

Flower Tea

Flower Tea

Flower TeaSee? Isn’t that pretty?

Dec 16 2009

My Favorite Kids

Jessica pretends my shoe is a phone

I’ve spent two evenings this week with my favorite kids. Monday night Jessica and I played fashion designer with my closet, and trust me, you’re glad I’m not showing you her sense of coordinating colors. You’re welcome.

Incidentally, I’ve added blur effects to hide ISO noise; all these were taken in low light.

Jessica picks out a dress and shoes:

Jessica thinks I should wear this one

and proceeds to turn them into toys:

Crazy Wig

I love the pose in this next one; just wish it came out of the camera a little less blurry. Oh well; enjoy!

Jessica

Yesterday I babysat for Keegan and Kadence so their parents could enjoy their eighth anniversary. Kadence sorted his Reese’s Pieces while Keegan worked on his Santa puppet (check out these reds and blues!):

Busy boys

These two have a great sibling relationship (and a stuffed Santa, if you look closely):

Keegan and Kadence

Oh, and they kinda seem to like me (probably because I gave them Reese’s Pieces):

Me and the Boys

Would you believe they posed themselves for this? Seriously, I look up and they are on the chair waiting for me (take the picture already, lady!):

Posing

Kadence giggles if you smooch him (Keegan took this one):

Smooch!

It’s things like this that make me look forward to having kids with Ryan someday. Not right now. But someday.

<insert contented sigh here>

Dec 14 2009

On a Photography Kick

Awww squirrel

So, I’ve been on a photography kick lately. I don’t have fancy equipment, but my little point-and-shoot-plus-Photoshop-magic and my iPhone-plus-Best-Camera-app have been keeping me quite amused lately.

Here are some fun iPhone photos:

Mom's cat, Penny

Sunset

Ryan

Mom's cockatiel, Precious