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Spring in Texas is the sweetest season. It is a precious window of warm afternoons, clear skies, cool breezes, and the occasional soaking rainstorm before a long, hot summer. It is also the season of flowers.

Spring in Texas has been lovely!  And Chris and I are taking full advantage of sweet, sunny weekends.  Saturday, I met Chris in Zilker Park when he got off work.  Chris often walks home from work, and last week noticed hundreds of big, fuzzy caterpillars in the wildflowers lining the trail.  We went to see [...]

I spy (with my little eye) cactus flower buds…and a teeny potato bug.

Spring has inspired me to begin some new things: Not Looking for Land One hour each day for learning something new (photoshop, the piano, the ukulele, photography, illustrator, sewing, Spanish…) Reading backward through the Nobel Laureates in Literature (by the way, read Herta Muller) Cook or bake one new thing each week (because I think [...]

Kite Day in Austin this year was glorious!  I love living in a city that celebrates Spring in such a Mary Poppins sort of way.

I love trees. When I move to or visit a new place, I immediately begin looking for species of trees that I’ve never seen before. I think trees are beautiful and alive and make our environment really healthy. There’s something peaceful about such quiet longevity. One year in college, there was a beautiful cherry tree [...]

Today was Kite Day in Austin (well, it was when I first began writing this post)!  Every March 1st, Austin celebrates Spring by holding a Kite Day in Zilker Park.  It was just a lovely, chill afternoon of families and groups of friends and couples flying kites, picknicking, and enjoying the brisk, March afternoon.