Austin
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May 28, 2021 – Beginning My 1st New Painting Since Before Our Move : Barton Springs Greenbelt Poster Series, Part 3
I’d hoped to fully finish my 1st work on about a month (due to our move) but there’s some finishing I want to do, plus, after 100 degree heat index most the day a storm’s blown through with straight line winds, hail, and (the good part) much cooler temps!
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May 27, 2021 – Beginning My 1st New Painting Since Before Our Move : Barton Springs Greenbelt Poster Series, Part 2
“…the blending going on with this smooth side is surprising and very promising in itself.”
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May 26, 2021 – Beginning My 1st New Painting Since Before Our Move (1 Month+) : Barton Springs Greenbelt Poster Series
It’s late already today, but wanted to show the beginning of what I’ve been up to the last 3-4 days, starting my 1st new painting since before our move! At or just over a month – but I’m so glad I’m pushing pigment again, lol!
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May 25, 2021 – Delivering Art for the Reopening of The Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas
Today Sheila and I took a selection of my prints and originals to the Old Bakery & Emporium. It was a warm welcoming reminder of what everyone involved with the Old Bakery, artists and personnel alike, have missed for over two years!
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May 23, 2021 – Choosing Art for the Reopening of The Old Bakery and Emporium
Early next week I’ll be going to the Old Bakery & Emporium as they prepare to hopefully reopen late June or early July!
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May 21, 2021 – First Tentative Dabs at Doing Art Again! (even if digital)
Week ago I uploaded my 1st image of the greenbelt near our new location in Austin (off one of my blog posts), and I’ll readily admit, I’ll think some of images since then are even more impressive – but – I really like a lot of things ’bout this pic (beyond the great memory of…
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May 19, 2021 – Reflecting, and Getting a Grip on My Life Chores, lol!
Rain threatened or fell most the day, but left an imprint of beauty at the end of day…That’s how I’ve begun to feel after another long day….
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May 17, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Morning View Walk in a Light Rain
I left off our car at a shop we’re trying out near our place for numerous routine minor stuff and walked the short distance back. Luckily I had an umbrella….
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May 16, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, After a Light Rain Barton Creek
It didn’t rain heavy, but it did rain off and on steadily, lol! And more of the same, some heavier, might come our way next 3 days or so. There was just enough rocks still above water I could walk out and….
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May 15, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Bird Friends at Our Balcony
Granted, my real life observation of birds is relatively limited, I’ve never seen this before, one Cardinal feeding two! Wonderful really, so amazed at the joy of such a tiny slice of nature ❤️ To say it’s adorable seems nearly a cliche, but adorable it is!
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May 14, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, First Bird to Visit Our New Balcony Brings a Friend
Adding on to yesterday’s pic of our 1st bird visitor to our new balcony at our new location is, I assume 😊, the same little bird, but with a friend, her red feathered boy cardinal I think! The expressions, I think, are priceless!
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May 13, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, First Bird to Visit Our Balcony in Our New Location
A simple pic tonight, a simple mingling of sentiments – innocence, curiosity, hunger….
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May 13, 2021 – Our #1 Learned Lesson This Move : Number the Boxes and Make a Digital List!
“Such a simple idea, and Sheila says she’s either read or heard something similar, but only occurred to me this morning searching for random items I must’ve stuffed into a box with other stuff and now can’t find them – number each box, make a list of….”
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May 12, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, A Little Water in Barton Creek
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 12, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Map for Barton Creek Greenbelt Near Us via Google Maps
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 11, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Absorbing Nature
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 10, 2021 – Random (sorta) Pic of the Day, Max Jumping Steps
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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May 02, 2021 – Contemplation Sunday : Moving During COVID-19, Exploring New Surroundings, Family, Art
“Sunshine and higher temps broke out after nearly a week of slight to moderate rain and cloud cover…Like most things in life, the cooling off before the big heat of summer was a welcome relief, and the return of sunshine and ability to get around with slip-sliding was also. Variability, in some things, must be…
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April 29, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid, 1st Look at the Roads and Woods Nearby
Sheila and I took a short 1/2 hour walk yesterday morning exploring some of the streets nearby. Maybe since we’re so near the green belt, most the streets and area around us is rumply and hilly-ish, not nearly as flat as where we lived before.
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April 27, 2021 – 1st Look at Barton Creek Greenbelt
“…here goes a short quickshot pictorial of my 1st probe of the nearest Austin nature area new to us, one we’ve never explored before; all done yesterday evening at the last moment.”
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April 25, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – First Full Day in Our New Location!
“I think the relief of being done with the move between locations really konked us out last night, lol! Slept little later than usual, made a leisurely healthy breakfast, sorted through….”
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April 23, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Long Day, Almost Finished the Transition to Our New Location
Had hoped to finish with the old place and be set for sorting and unpacking at the new, but too much to do. That and rolling thunderstorms, hail and threats of tornadoes, lol!
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April 22, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – The Movers Arrive, on Earth Day
Don’t want to tell you what we have ahead in terms of chores (esp setting up new WiFi), but can tell you, as per the top pic, we earned our keep today on Earth Day, moving within the trees 😊 💕 🌳
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April 21, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Catching the New Light at the New Apartment
Most of what we took yesterday (Tue, the 20th) were boxed paintings, but one, the acrylic Lady in Paris 1889 which I’d been working on, chosen ’cause the paint would dry quickly minimizing smears & all that, lol, and that one, not too big, at 20×20, was super light, so I just hand carried it.
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April 20, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Our 1st Peek of Our New Abode
Tomorrow I’ll try and have some interior shots I took before our car load of boxes came in; another similar round of car loads tomorrow, then the “big” movers come Thursday; but right now, 5 min til 8pm, we’re very hopeful, and we’re calling it a day, quite a day ♥️
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April 18, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Stragglers Needing Packing
“I have most my images, prints and originals, paper/canvas/panels, mostly packed now…Somehow I’ve ended up with several stragglers, lol!”
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April 16, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Boxing It Up
Stay well everyone, and wish us continued good luck w/our move!
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April 05, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Shout Out to Office Depot: Free Laminating of Our CDC Vaccination Record; Plus Playtime with Grandchild; and New Volleyball Image Upload
Stay well everyone! Good-night! Work and play as able / as needed – it’s our juggling game of life ♥️
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April 01, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Paris Painting In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Nearly One Year Later
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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April 01, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid is No April Fool’s Day
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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March 31, 2021 – Changes in My Blogging Pattern
“…we are preparing for a new day in a new location much nearer town (close to the above pic where we lived before for a long time, but a little more west, closer to Zilker Botanical Garden) and family (grandchildren and children).”
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March 10, 2021 – Confusion and Weariness With Mask Anarchy, LOL!
It’s barely 4 in the afternoon here in Austin but I feel like I’ve lived another week of another mass confusion and whiplash.
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March 07, 2021 – Woke to This! Masks Now To Be Required to Grocery Shop at HEB, Randalls – Opinion, It’s the Right Thing To Do
Sheila came rushing in to the kitchen to ask me to guess who reversed their no-masks-required decision, and I jokingly “guessed” at several of our state’s leadership, but I was wrong anyway, lol! No, it’s more important than that actually – it’s where we shop to buy our food!
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March 04, 2021 – Masks in Grocery Stores in Austin – Back to Mask/Mass Confusion
All I feel I can really do is wish and pray for the safety of everyone in those stores without mandates, whether pro or con re the masks. If we’re in this together, we really need to act like we’re are in this together ♥️
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March 03, 2021 – Why We’re Only Shopping at Sprouts For Groceries (and a few others) Here in Austin For Now, Hint: Covid-19
“… for us to choose to voluntarily restrict ourselves to Sprouts, and a few other stores I’ll highlight hopefully tomorrow, is a big deal. Fixed incomes of the qualifying-for-most-any-level of stimulus cut-off-money work that way 😊 ”
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February 25, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Is It a Wrap?
Is our #TexasFreeze winter storm over? A wrap? Done and ready to be forgotten?
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February 22, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Power is On, Water is Running, Boil Ban is Canceled, and – I Shaved!
It’s hard to express the relief in again having the taken-for-granted luxury of running water, power to heat and cool our air and bodies, and being able to stand with family, even if for a short time, even if we knew we’d all four had to have been social distancing / masking – even if…
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February 21, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Hope is a Wet Blue Line and One Brave Bird in a Tree
My apologies for the break in communication continuity since yesterday morning – it’s been a rough but promising ride, and, I got my own answer as to how come the phrase/idea, “Why the Caged Bird Sings” has always appealed to me 😊
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February 20, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Possible Light End of A Cold Tunnel
The Texas Tribune has lots of articles examining both the overall and details of this disaster. A major component, as voiced from different directions, is cost —
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February 19, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, The Light in the Cold
The Texas Tribune has lots of articles examining both the overall and details of this disaster. A major component, as voiced from different directions, is cost —
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February 18, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Last Day of Snow? Short Videos and a Few Pics
Possibly my last snow images of Austin’s #TexasFreeze Feb 2021
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February 18, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, 111 Hours Without Heat and Counting…. But Here’s a Bit of Humor!
Here’s a bit of typical Texas humor surfacing from the ice here in Texas 😊
#TexasFreeze, Abraham Stein @AbrahamStein8, Alfonso Flores @alfonsoflores1, Austin Texas, Austin weather, CitiesWithNature @CitiesWNature, Elizabeth Neeld @elizabethneeld, Emily Bem facebook.com/bembelina, GoodtimesJackson @officialhotrod, Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3, Texas weather, Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN
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February 17, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Finger Pointing – Facts, Diversions and Worrying News
#TexasFreeze – Facts, Diversions and Worrying News. Winter Storm Austin Texas February 2021
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February 17, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, My Walking Nature Shots Amid Unnecessary Suffering for Nearly Half the City’s Population
My walking pictures of yesterday during Austin winter storm of Feb ’21. #TexasFreeze
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February 16, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, A Tale of Two Cities
Info is coming out of ignored warnings within our Texas energy company re mis-use of power margins (I don’t know the details) and warnings of energy crunches, especially during our seemingly unending hot summers. The local news calls it “a lot of finger pointing.”
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February 15, 2021 – Austin Winter Storm, Looks Pretty, Feels Terrible, No Power 14+ Hours
Sheila and I’ve been through 2 weeks without power in Galveston, after Hurricane Alicia, and I went through Hurricane Carla in Houston over 3 days in ’61, but this we-ain’t-built-for-it single digit cold and below zero wind shield has literally shut down the entire Texas power grid!
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February 14, 2021 – The Weather Advisory in Austin Mid-Afternoon
Weather warnings for unprecedented winter storm in Central Texas Feb 2021
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February 14, 2021 – The Weather in Austin May Affect My Posting, Just Not Sure How Yet 😏
Temperatures here in Austin are predicted to drop and stay around the temps Sheila and I experience in ’89 when we moved here from Galveston, ie, mid to low single digits. Records in this area going back to the 1800s put that at #4 on the all time lows list!
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Update with SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Last week I post a more in-depth post, pictures & info, of the SilverSneakers Stability class Sheila and I take with Curt Holland at Gold’s Gym here in Austin, promising to update with a shot I thought I’d taken but, well, didn’t take, lol! That’s the shot above 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Recently I uploaded a SilverSneakers stability class post, talked a little about how good the class was, both in terms of social distancing and the instructor, but hadn’t been able to get some pics – but now I have! 😊
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