Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Every Picture Tells a Story

  • Good Dogs, Brave Duck

    Monday morning my head was floating somewhere in the clouds when the dogs and I climbed the path to the little pond in the hills. Belle seemed excited about something, rushing to the top of the path. That brought me down to earth in time to ready my camera and snap this…     …before…

  • Under Attack

    It seemed like a good idea at the time, getting off the main road and taking the path along the creek for a bit on my morning walk. The problem is that path is little more than a deer trail in many places, making it necessary to duck and zigzag around mountain cedar branches.  Well,…

  • Salts of the Sea

        Early sunlight reached through the gauzy curtains, caressed her skin, whispered wake up, wake up. On cue, the sounds of surf tiptoed into the room, singing her more awake. Eyes barely open, she pulled on the running clothes lying on a nearby chair, grabbed her worn out Brooks and laced them on tight.…

  • God Bless the Late Bloomers!

    Those things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for. ~St. Thomas More   It's inside of me. I can feel it pushing, trying to stretch and uncurl its petals, this flower of mine. This flower of Me. Some days it's stronger than others and I feel it's almost there,…

  • Ripped Apart and other Sweet!s of the Week

    A collection of colorful bags and pieces of luggage grows beside me. Today's the day I take TG back to campus to start the spring semester. Wasn't it just a few days ago that we carried all of those bags down from the car? Christmas break went by so fast. At the beginning of it…

  • Small Steps and Safety Nets

    According to my resolved writing-career strategy for the new year, the first ten pages of my children's book should be dusted off, attached to an email and on its way to an agency by now. I'm sure you can guess from that sentence that my plan has gone awry. The time to begin writing an…

  • Kids, Jewelry, Birthdays, Weddings and other (belated) Sweet!s

    A rumble of thunder and whisper of rain woke me in the night. It continues today, another steady, soaking rain falling from a colorless sky. We've had enough rain in the past few weeks that I almost take it for granted, despite the months of drought. Almost, but not quite. Waking to the sound of…

  • “Hey Lady! You forgot FUN!”

    Oh my gosh, I did! Thank you, Squirrel! I can’t believe in my list of important ‘F’ words, I forgot one of the most important ones: FUN!. It wouldn’t be much of a year without that one, would it? So, let’s recap… (from my previous post…) In 2012, I’m going to put up Fences to structure my time… I’m…

  • Welcoming 2012 (and other sweet!s of the week)

    This first day of January has just drifted by. I haven't accomplished much of anything beyond a little after-party straightening and a walk with the puppies. Just reading about everything I did last New Year's Day makes me tired! But I feel as if I'm drifting in a calm spot between two rapids in a…

  • He Said, She Said

    He said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "Yes."   After dating five years… after hanging on to a relationship and seeing each other every chance they could while going after their dreams and getting their degrees at different colleges and getting jobs in different cities and sharing custody of their puppy…   …they're getting…