This Is Why I Never Get Anything Done

Happy Valentines!

Our New Garden

 Here's our new plot in the Palo Alto Community Garden. When we got it, the plot was overgrown with blackberry bramble, roses and grapes.

 We cleared out all the berry, dug up the roots and leveled the soil. Now it's ready for spring planting.

The Inside.

The house is ready, you can come visit now.

Palo Alto House

 Pictures of the outside of our new house in Palo Alto, CA.

Butterfly

At Natural Bridge Caverns in San Antonio, TX.

Beans

Thomas holding a bean pod. This is the sort of thing Native Americans used to eat before White People came along, if Park Rangers are to be believed. Mission San Jose, San Antonio, TX.

Facade

The church at Mission San Jose in San Antonio, TX. 

Mission Concepcion

The well-maintained interior of Mission Conception, second on the Mission Trail, San Antonio, TX.

Pom Pom Dahlia

 Taken last year at Volunteer Park in Seattle, WA.

Goodbye Summer

Corn and Sunflowers growing in my backyard in Richardson, TX.

Cats In The Window

This is how my cats have a meeting of the minds.

Clean Hands

 

A little girl rinsing off on the River Walk in San Antonio, TX. 

Heron

 

This little guy, as far as I can tell, is a Green Heron. He threw me of his heron-trail by not having a long neck, but then I realized his neck was just scrunched down like some of these guys here: http://www.google.com/images?q=green+heron&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=leGeTJzFBoGBlAf62KnwAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQsAQwAA&biw=1920&bih=1016. The internets win again! I photographed him at the Sunken Gardens in San Antnio, TX.

Seafood

The fish market at Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA. This is my first effort at shooting RAW and editing a series in Photoshop.