Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Hitting the road

  • Wining and Dining, Texas Style (my birthday part 2 – and my Friday/Saturday Favorite Photos)

    Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.  ~Voltaire   Texas has a lot of vineyards and wineries. I bet some of you didn't know that! We noticed one outside of Wimberley named Driftwood and decided to drop in on our…

  • Zippity-Do-Dah (my birthday, part 1)

    I wanted to be Tarzan when I was little. I'd sit in the livingroom on Saturday afternoons watching Johnny Weismuller swing from tree to tree on those vines, and then poof! I was in that jungle myself, way up in a tree, grabbing hold of a vine and swinging high above the ground to the…

  • Back Home

    I left my parents' house before lunchtime, fortified by a bacon and eggs breakfast a la Daddy. (That seems odd to say "my parents" house, when it's my childhood home, the house where I can't turn around without bumping into half a dozen memories…) It was tough to leave – I worry about my sister Brenda,…

  • Intersections and Good Rules

    Every intersection in the road of life is an opportunity to make a decision.  ~ Duke Ellington "So you decided to leave in the morning?" Tom asked when he arrived home from work yesterday evening and I was still sitting at the computer. "I don't know! I'm still trying to decide!" He rolled his eyes. I…

  • A Father, a Son, a Sunrise – my Friday Favorite Photos

    Backpacking for days in the semi-wilderness of Big Bend, just Tom and Daniel … That's how they've spent the past several spring breaks, except for one, sharing moonlight, sunlight, water and a tent … and engraving memories in their hearts they can share forever. Memories like this sunrise they witnessed from a cliff, waiting in…

  • Weary Travelers – Weary Mom (and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)

    I've been home alone for the past few days, holding down the fort, while the rest of my bunch have been out having Spring Break fun. I didn't begrudge them heading out for fun and adventure while I had to work – I take an annual Fall Break, an escape to the coast with girlfriends.…

  • Fame is the Scentless Sunflower…

    While I sit here typing away on my computer, throngs of people are converging on city streets (including Austin's) eating, drinking, and getting all of that rowdy, overindulgent behavior out of their systems, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, and for the next 6 weeks they'll be pure as hermit monks……

  • Cinnamon Toast and Puzzle Pieces

    Last night, just as I was about to drift off to sleep, I swear I smelled cinnamon toast. You know that kind where you put four globs of butter on a slice of white bread, then sprinkle cinnamon all over it and finally, cover the whole thing in sugar and toast it in a small…

  • Deepwater Reflections, thank you Rosa Parks, and a Wednesday Procrastination

    When the sun stepped into the Hollow this morning, it found me gazing at a reflection of the surrounding autumn-dressed trees in a nearby pond. Tickled by the wind, the pond surface rippled and the reflection wavered…still unmistakably golden trees, but altered from the original by the elements. It hit me that this was a…

  • When we were young…

    Young love, young bodies. Before pregnancy and childbirth and knee surgeries and varicose veins. Before car wrecks and hernias and headaches and heart stents. When there was… …enough money… …enough energy… …enough time for all of our dreams to come true.   Man, how time flies! But, you know… Our love might not be young.…