hubby takes me on a date

To one of my favorite places. Whole Foods Market. Good food to eat, coffee, even wine to drink, and TONS of eye candy. This corner in downtown Austin is delightful to me....There is Whole Foods, Chico's, Waterloo Records, Anthropologie, each on their own corner. Just looking at each place makes me swoon. I don't even have to buy anything. But on this outing we did pick up a few things.

 Live music at Waterloo. Glen Fukunaga, fine Austin musician.

Date night giftie at Anthropologie.

Bouquet of Peonies

Display at Whole Foods

We ate Sesame Kale salad, along with pizza. Gobbled it up, so no photo.

so far away....

Time is rushing by me so fast I can hear the wind whistling in my ears.

Earth Day Venue from two weeks ago

At the end of the final program we all marched out in a conga line, beating drums that they handed out. People formed the words Beyond Coal and a helicopter flew over and took photos.  If you look closely you can see where I was seated and a little lower in the photo, hubby.  They seated people by shirt color, or at least tried to.  We were out there for almost an hour, I got sunburned.                                                                                                                                               

                                                    



As you can probably see, I am having some trouble getting my text inserted properly in this new blogger format.

I can't keep up with it all

I am feeling so far behind in everything. My energy level is so low that I can barely get through the day.  Most days I need a nap.  This Earth Day Festival from a few weeks ago marked our first day to hit 95 degreees.  We've been in the 90's almost every day since.



Aerial photo of all the folks who marched out in a conga line, with drums to spell out this message for alternative energy.



EARTH DAY 2012

There are too many festivals to count, much less attend, on any given week-end here in Austin. Last week-end, we chose the YARD ART TOUR, which I have tons of photos from that I haven't posted yet.

This week-end it is EARTH DAY stuff. Yesterday we spent several hours at a Wine&Cheese tasting event. Had plans for a couple of other stops, but after all the wine and cheese we were too tired to continue. 

Today we are off to an all day festival of events.

As soon as I have time to figure out this new format that blogger has come up with, I just might be able to post photos again.

HAPPY EASTER

How does one get over that awkward stage, when explaining why they haven't posted to their blog in such a long time? One doesn't really. I've had the doldrums, had personal issues, have had lots to say, but didn't know how to put it into words. Any number of reasons, I guess I've had them all. At any rate, here are a bevy of bunnies to share for this Easter Week-end.
disclaimer...none of these bunnies are real, folks. The two who look real are photos of real bunnies with flowers added. I don't believe in painting real live bunnies, or chicks either for that matter.

my name is Frona

Hub invited me out to breakfast this morning. We had to make a run over to B&N to pick up a couple of things, so decided to hit our favorite deli on that side of townn...MannyHattans. Only to find that it had gone out of business! When did this happen...who knows, we hadn't been there in about a month. Oh no...did we help put it out of business by not going often enough? My best and favorite bagel, a real N.Y. style bagel, tough and chewy, not the airy, bready ones you find in the grocery. Trying to think what else was in the neighborhood, we decided on Panera Bread. We rarely eat there, they have a rep of having very high-calorie, non healthy foods. Well, when one craves a bagel and cream cheese, that's not the healthiest choice anyhow. Since we were going to eat in, I asked for my Cappucino in a ceramic cup. The waiter looked a little surprised, like that doesn't happen often, but he dug around under the counter and came up with one. He said, "here we are, this one has your name on it", then he turned it upside down to read the bottom and said "if your name is Frona". I said, "well it could be, that's a nice name". I told him that since Mannys had closed we may be coming there more often, he said I'll save the cup for you. When he called me up to get my bagel he said "here's your order Frona". He seemed to be enjoying the fun of it all. I'll bet he will remember me next week. Hope he still has this nice yellow cup.




When we left, we discovered a small gallery/frame shop in the same mall, so went in to look around. They had a lot of frames and a few gift items. There was a collection of licensed products from several artists I know from Somerset Studio publications. I bought this cute little heart by Kelly Rae Roberts.

Back in The Groove

I've been gone for a few weeks, and just now getting settled back into a normal routine. I spent a good amount of time making preparations for both my parents birthdays,invitations, gathering photos, and making them each something special. My sister and I planned a big combined celebration for them, since their birthdays are only 4 days apart. It was a mini-family reunion, so we got to see lots of Aunts, Uncles, cousins that we hadn't seen in a good long while. We had over 40 people show up for the party/open house. We also had an entire week of celebrating, going to dinner at relatives homes, out for breakfast for both Mom and Dad. We had an excess of everything...coffee, sugar, food. It was all great fun, lots of laughs. Now we are all trying to detox our bodies!

Here are a couple of the things I made for my parents birthdays.

12x12 framed and embellished.


Hanging canvas. I cut the stencil for the cowboy from a photo my Mom took of my Dad a number of years ago.

Back of canvas