These are links from my del.icio.us feed for November 9th:

FOOD: Boiled Peanuts Recipe | Simply Recipes - Man, this brings back memories of road trips thru the South when I was a kid. My mother had a weakness for roadside stands of boiled peanuts (which I have most definitely inherited) ….. "Before there was edamame [...]

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These are links from my del.icio.us feed for November 8th:

PHOTO: Dover Middle School’s 10 Tips for Photography Students - This is a guest post on the Digital Photography School written by a group of middle school photography students. They have been reading the DPS site and their teacher wrote in and asked if her students [...]

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With reports of record turn-outs at early voting, I’m sure a lot of you have already voted (I did!). If you are waiting until Tuesday, please don’t forget. It’s easy to get caught up in your day and think it’s just one vote. It IS one vote, but it adds up and it’s so very [...]

Categories: R-R-Rambling

Every year I seem to JUST miss the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration and swear that the following year I’m going to make sure I don’t forget. By some miracle this year I actually remembered and even managed to wrangle a few people to come down to the procession with me. [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Friend-ish · Jef · Shutterbuggin'

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”
- Anonymous

We finally got rain this week! When it started to come down I swear I heard an audible sigh of relief from the earth. It wasn’t a downpour - which is good, the ground is so dry I don’t think it could stand [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Nature-ish · Shutterbuggin'

If you’re ever having a blah sort of day, I recommend you go to Vivo in on the East side of Austin. Not only is the patio a cool, shaded, tropical paradise, they have a nice long margarita menu (maybe longer than the food menu!). To top it off, they give every woman a long-stemmed [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Foodie · Shutterbuggin'

I was out at Boggy Creek Farm this past weekend getting familiar with the grounds for an upcoming photo shoot. It’s a really cool farm, if you haven’t been, you should check it out. Here’s an excerpt from their website:
Surrounded by housing subdivisions, schools, and commercial enterprises, which had been built on land once [...]

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I had the opportunity to take some portraits of my friend, Xaviera’s, beautiful dogs, Carl Devine & Bella Carlita this week. She got them from a shelter so she isn’t sure what they are, but they look quite a bit like Old English Sheep Dogs. They are very sweet and it was fun trying [...]

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