Current Photo Friday theme: Softness

Back in the 1990s, my friend Big Hair Lisa and I went into a grocery store late one night. It must have been near Valentine's Day, because all these red bears were posed among the flowers in their floral department. I picked up this one and fell in love with him because he was the softest thing I'd ever held. Lisa took him away from me, paid for him, and gave him back.

Recently on a daytime drama I watch, a couple exchanging wedding vows promised to be each other's "soft place when you fall." Lisa, like me, is a steel magnolia. But many times when I've fallen, she's provided that soft place of friendship and unconditional love.

A soft heart is the most beautiful place I know.

Current Photo Friday theme: Well Groomed

Current Photo Friday theme: Autumn 2009

Houston doesn't get autumn's riot of color found in cooler climates.
So Mother Nature gets dressed with a little help from her friends.

Current Photo Friday theme: ...Is In The Details

Silver Spoon: Style is in the details.

Current Photo Friday theme: Dawn

Sago palm seeds: a little color on a gray, overcast morning

The seeds are on the female plant. They're toxic and can lead to liver failure if ingested by dogs. Our sago palm is a male, but our neighbors on either side have female plants.

Current Photo Friday theme: Fast Food

Wendy's bacon cheeseburgers (and fries), hold the onions*.
Gone in forty seconds.

*Onions are toxic to dogs.

Current Photo Friday theme: The Face

"In the old country, we were treated as dogs."

Current Photo Friday theme: Plants

Veins 2008

Current Photo Friday theme: Fear

Flag at Half Mast
September 11, 2009
American General Center
Houston, Texas

For Photo Friday and September 11 remembrance.

Current Photo Friday theme: Urban Landscape

Technically not one of the better photos I have of Houston. I like it because the downtown skyline is so visible, even with clouds rolling in, more than seven miles east of where I'm shooting--evidence of the city's extremely flat topography.

Also, that tiny dark shape in the approximately one o'clock position is a jet flying into Hobby Airport.