Long Hollow

Where seeds of thought have room to grow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Favorite Photo Fridays

  • Connections (my Friday Favorite Photos)

    A few years ago, inspired by my lifetime friend Ann's blog, I started Long Hollow. It was pretty scary putting my thoughts and words out here for all the world (at least it felt like all the world) to see. But I stepped through the fear and did it anyway.  I had no idea back…

  • Smiles (and Friday’s Favorite Photos)

    Oh, I had big plans for yesterday, all spelled out in a realistic and do-able list of things to accomplish on my day off. Besides the usual – my morning walk with the dogs, their breakfast on the back porch and my work-out which I always dread and want to get out of the way…

  • New Directions and Aching Feet – plus Friday Favorite Photos

    For the past decade of my life, whenever the trail I was following narrowed to a dead-end, a new path would suddenly appear. Now I've begun watching for those trailheads. At times it feels like I'm wandering through a maze – if I think about it, it seems a little scary, but I just need…

  • Just Three Things (and a Friday Favorite Photo)

    I'll be traveling today, driving miles of highway in my air-conditioned car, singing along to the radio, probably dancing in my seat and drumming on the steering wheel, perhaps swerving off the road to capture something in my camera (because I can do that when I travel alone.) (Don't worry, Mama I promise I'll be…

  • Time, Water and other missing things (plus Friday’s Favorite Photos)

    I walked at dusk, a tangerine glow still lining the horizon, not quite snuffed by the night sky. The wind blew hard, but it was comforting, like a friend's reassuring hug, and its roaring in my ear was a lullaby, soothing. While the puppies hunted for lizards and rough-housed in the sand, I turned inward,…

  • Sweets on a Saturday and (another) belated Friday Favorite Photo

    I have a good excuse for posting my favorite photos of the week today instead of yesterday… I spent yesterday morning on the University of Texas campus, snapping photo after photo of Daniel dressed in his graduation robe and cap in front of the Tower, the Littlefield Fountain, Battle Hall, a row of beautiful old…

  • Rising Up, Grateful (plus some “Sweet!” moments and a belated Friday Favorite Photo)

    Do you ever have those mornings when you're so mentally drained or physically tired you just want to pull the covers up over your head and skip that day altogether? I do. Not often anymore, but I still do every once in a while. On those mornings I remind myself that each and every day,…

  • Attention: Computer and Photo Geeks… HELP! (a Friday Photo Mystery)

    It's Friday, which means normally I'd be sharing my favorite photo of the week with you. Instead, I'm sharing this one, a photo I did not take of two girls I do not even know in a place that does not look familiar to me at all. Does anyone else recognize them or the place? My…

  • Wake at Dawn (and my Friday Favorite Photo)

    Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~ Khalil Gibran I rose early to see a loved one off on a tough adventure, with a prayer that their perseverance pays off… either that or that they learn to be flexible if things don't work out the way…

  • A Sweet Saturday (and my Friday Favorite Photo)

    Last night we heard our middle son's name called, watched as he walked across a stage in his cap, gown and stole, watched him shake hands and receive a piece of paper that essentially read "Congratulations! You did it!" That's why I waited until today to post my Friday Favorite Photo… Congratulations, Daniel!!! We're so…