WWC at Castillo de San Marcos

Today's pictures and yesterday's picture of the day were taken at Castillo de San Marcos in Saint Augustine Florida.

This picture would have been a PERFECT canon firing shot but it is blurry so it is FLAWED

Flag that flies at the entranceEntrance guard

Walls of the Castillo are very cool

We had fun wandering around the monument grounds and even took some time to relax on the wall that runs along the water. We read our books in the sun with the water lapping at our feet. It was fabulous. The picture below I took when I looked up from our little spot and thought what a cool image it was. The monument is right behind and to the right of this tree. But looking at it from our perspective made it look like this tree was in an endless grassy field.

Pictures of Texas

Texas was beautiful. Here are a few shots.

Flower at the hotel garden

Same flower from the back
and close up This is our Plano office
Snowy Egret at the lake behind our company facility
I wouldn't mnd working at this facility if this is my view every lunch


This little guy was a surprise to see (it is a ferret)

This waterfall is at a restaurant we ate at

Duck in the pond at the same place
This interesting guy kept coming into the eating area begging

Deep in the heart..........

So where do you go when you are in Texas for a week? That's right, an Irish pub. What did you expect?

I spent just shy of 6 hours there with two guys I work with and I don't think we stopped laughing for more than 5 minutes total. Our waiter sat with us for a while. As did the host. Apparently we are the "fun" type of customer. We talked baseball and Minnesota, Favre and KG.

The weather was beautiful. A few drops of rain. Some fantastic lightening. And great company.

I have had barbecue and steak. But I have also had a philly cheese steak. And shephards pie.

Tonight we are heading to the cowboy boot mecca and a great barbecue joint.

Hopefully. Our fearless leader is sick as a dog. I just hope he lasts long enough to lead us to the promised land.

Lone Star Newt

I don't own a pair of cowgirl boots. Dang it. But if I did they would TOTALLY look like this. Speaking of this, I found these shoes at this place. And actually they have pretty cute stuff. I would have ordered the boots but they are sold out. Sigh..............

See the trouble one can get in just searching google images for stuff. Now I want to shop at their site.

Anywhoodle Homebloys, I am off to Plano Texas. Which is right outside of Dallas.

Barbecue and Shiner baby!

And probably some work as well.

But We'll focus on the ice cold shiner waiting for us at the end of the day.

I don't know how much internet time I will get but WWC will be posted tomorrow. I actually think I got some good shots for this week.

Giddy Up!

Friday Quickie

Ahhh, home sweet home.

The best part about coming home: Hubster, happy pups, and our bed. I love our bed. I hadn't slept well all week. But last night, I was dead to the world.

The other cool part about homecoming: 40 degrees or so. I actually sat outside at the airport while I waited for Hubster. It was glorious. A little on the cold side, but glorious none the less. I sat on the rock bump (should have taken a picture) and read till he came.

The only complaint was having to smell this while I waited. Gross!












My last meal in California:

I did get way way too close to loosing that tasty burger on the plane ride. (TMI!) It was a rough ride as soon as we began our descent and till after we landed. I was green and not happy. The only thing that kept me from grabbing ye ol' blue bag in the seat pocket in front of me was the two cuties I was sitting next to. No way was I going to loose it next to Abercrombe and Hollister. HELL NO!

I do have my old lady pride ya know.

Last thing I need to have go out on the pool boy rumor mill is that I get airsick.

It will make it that much more expensive to find one when I am good and ready to have one.

Notes from sunny CA

Well, it was a fantastic weekend of family. Nothing exciting, just good quality family time. And that is more important than anything in this world.

My boss and I went window shopping on Rodeo Drive last night. We fell in love with a pair of sandals that were a mere $795.00. We considered splitting the cost and sharing custody since we wear the same size shoe.

The people watching was FANTASTIC!

The oddest part of the night was that we kept seeing a group of people walking around and one of the men in the group was carrying a big fuzzy blond clown wig. No idea why, they looked so ordinary tourist.

Then this morning my boss told me that some guy in a blond wig robbed a jewelry store and then was shot by police. This was in a different part of Los Angeles.

Total coincidence but how odd is that?

Speaking of odd - I hope I never get so desparate for a job that I have to do this:

And now for some family pics

My Aunt and Uncle with my parents pups - River and Othello
Me, my dad and my mom

My Aunt with LilyLily hiding under the couch

Too high

Here is a vlog of the onramp in Austin that scared the bezeebus out of me.

Images of Austin

Umlauf Sculpture Garden

View of Downtonw Austin from Zilker Park

Zilker Botanical Garden

California Dream'n

The view from the convertible - it was 38 degrees out,

but that didn't stop us silly Minnesotans

Santa Monica Pier

View from the Odyssey where we went almost every day after work.

Look at that view, can you blame us?That tan layer is smog - yum!




Right near the Odyssey is the San Fernando Mission


Some of the sights on the Odyssey property

Sunset at the Odyssey


This view is from 57 freeway going toward the mountains

In-N-Out Burger
What Jesus has been doing lately
View from the street I grew up on - the house I was

born in is just to my left

On the back side of the building our office is in

they film Desperate Housewives

Highway 5 in Burbank

And finally, one of my better pictures