Saturday, May 23, 2009

A Walk Around Our Block in Pictures

Our neighborhood and our rectangular block with our house in the southeast corner. It's very quiet and rustic out here which is why we love it so much.



Today we started our one mile walk by turning left (north) from our house to the corner of Lauralan and Claxton and turned west for roughly 4/10ths of a mile to the end of the street.



As we neared the end of the street I turned around and shot this next picture looking east on Claxton. That dog in the yard on the left was trying to scare us.



Once at the end of Claxton, we turn south on Pitter Pat which offers a very nice view. Also at this point we are about 50 feet higher in elevation than at our house, so it's all downhill from here. At roughly the point where you see the white speed limit sign on the right, that's where we turn east onto our street again.



At the corner.




Then we're heading east back home on Lauralan.



The street curves north here and our property is on the left.



In the last shot we are heading north on Lauralan, again with our lot on the left.



And thus concludes our daily one mile jaunt around the block. I'll probably do this again in the afternoon. I wouldn't mind getting up to 3 miles a day.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Purple Prickly Pear Flowers



txrad snapped this picture today of the purple prickly pear in blossom. Magnificent.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Jerusalem Sage



txrad took some photos of the Jerusalem sage in bloom a few days ago. It's beautiful!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

First Snake Sighting of the Season





Can someone identify this? I got out my snake book and it may be a black-necked garter snake.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Roma Tomatoes In Progress

Sheldon's tomato crop is coming along nicely. We can't wait for our first harvest. I have a small heirloom tomato on one of my plants in a bed by the kitchen. The race is on to see who can harvest one first but I'm sure it'll be his since he got a head start on me by at least two weeks.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Fresh Onions

The first onion harvest of the season from our garden! These will be an ingredient in our Southwestern rice casserole tonight!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Garden Butterfly



This one spent some time in my tomato garden this morning but seemed to prefer something in the soil.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Birthday Floral (2 Weeks Early)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Moth

Friday, March 20, 2009

Dried Bay Leaves



Our bay tree got slightly stung by the last freeze so txrad harvested some leaves. They smell wonderful!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Mountain Laurel in Bloom

Our Texas Mescalbean photographed by txrad today.



We can't actually see it from our house unfortunately. It's on the west side of the property behind some trees. I was wearing Birkenstocks and was getting stuff in my shoe so I didn't walk all the way out there. txrad said it smelled like bubblegum within two feet of this plant.



Maybe the neighbors enjoy it since it's only a few feet from their property line.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cremini



Once in awhile we deviate from the portobello, in favor of.... baby portobello. Tonight is such a night. Pizza in the works.

Friday, February 20, 2009

txrad is an onion fahmah

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Chopped Veggies



The veggies in last night's southwestern rice casserole prepared by txrad. Gotta love that color!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Just To Annoy Nicole



This week's breakfast is ready. Blueberry muffins with one banana which was in the last stages. I was short one egg so that helped.