Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Every Picture Tells a Story

  • Out of the Silence, Music

    Out of the silence, Music. Out of the darkness, Light. Out of uncertainty, Promise. Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. This verse came to me via email, a Christmas card from a friend. I love the simplicity of it and wanted to share it with you. I'm bleary-eyed and worn out, still working my way down a neglected…

  • No Red Moonbeams for Me … A Long Hollow Update

    "It's starting to feel more like Christmas to me. The temps are staying low, there's the smell of wood smoke in the air, my tree is up and decorated, cards are trickling in, and TG is home." I wrote this several days ago – just one of many posts that wither on the vine because…

  • It’s going to be a long night…

    Or maybe a long day tomorrow. I haven't decided which. You see, tonight is the final lunar eclipse of 2010, and I don't want to miss it. My FlickR friend Debbie sent me a link to a CNN article featuring this enticing image… and this opening line… "Skygazers hoping to catch the last lunar eclipse…

  • A Belated Friday (or Saturday) Favorite Photo

    Yesterday morning when I started out on my walk with the dogs, the sun was just an orange candle glow barely cutting through the darkness on the horizon. I could barely see the road, and if the dogs stepped off of the white caliche, forget it – they just melted into the black on either…

  • A weekend with dogs and twenty-somethings

    This was my kind of weekend, nicely balanced between live music, dancing, socializing with friends, and just hanging out, spending low-key time at the house with (some of) the kids and Tom. Oh, and dogs. Lots of dog time, too. Oldest son Tommy arrived first from Dallas. A few hours and a movie later, his…

  • Rocking in the Hangar – a Christmas tradition

    I didn't see my camera hit the concrete; it all happened way too fast…the oh-crap look on Tom's face, the metallic clunk that made me wince. By the time my eyes caught up to it, it already lay still and naked on the hangar floor, staring up at me, the lens skidding several feet away.…

  • Our Lady…

    The story goes that in the winter of 1531, Juan Diego, a humble Mexican peasant, was on his way to morning Mass in Mexico City when the Virgin Mary appeared to him on a hill along his path; she asked him to speak to the bishop for her about building a church in that spot.…

  • A little of this, a little of that…

    …makes a great pot of chili! A cold front dropped in for a visit this weekend and has decided to stick around for a few days, so Tom and I took advantage of it tonight and made our first pot of Winter 2010 Chili. We made a great team – he browned the meat and…

  • A Boy and his Grandma – my Friday Favorite Photo

    Because of Thanksgiving, I missed posting my Friday Favorite Photo last week, so I think it's only fitting that I post one from that holiday weekend today…and since today is my oldest son's 25th birthday, I think it's only fitting that I post one of him. This was my favorite, hands down, that fit both…

  • A Quarter Century? Really?

    Back then it was chocolate cake, candles, games and presents. I would be stressing about having the house ready, the cake ready, the presents wrapped, enough games, food and movies to fill the time so the house wasn't destroyed by bored little boys and girls. We would have a pinata filled with candy and pray…