The two pics below are from a 2011 trip to Ireland. The first is just pretty – from the village of Howth outside of Dublin. The second is the beginning of the Liffey Swim, an annual event that began in 1920 and has evolved into a big-damned-deal, as you can tell by the number of […]
The pic below is of a sidewalk coffee stand in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul, on the Asian side. They take their coffee very seriously there and boy, do they like it strong – the story goes that your espresso isn’t strong enough unless it can support a standing bull. Debra and I aren’t quite […]
In the last post, I mentioned that we were going to have some professional pictures taken of the LOAP Alpha. As you know, we typically have Trey Freeze do our professional shots. Trey was too busy (as many truly talented people are) to take the Alpha pics on the schedule that we needed, so we […]
Our thoughts are with the Belgian people. This picture is of the Flower Carpet in Brussels, Belgium in 2012. Once every five years, the already lovely central square of the city is transformed into a spectacle of delicate beauty – blanketed by an immense carpet of flowers. If you ever get the chance to see […]
Fireplaces have been a part of warm, inviting environments for thousands of years – probably since shortly after humans discovered that fire was not simply something to be feared and avoided. The one above is from Inchcolm Abbey, on Inchcolm Island in the Firth of Forth just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, and dates from about 1100 […]
Unseasonably warm weather has brought an early spring to north Texas. Even though this post is about the LOAP Alpha, I’m opening it with a shot taken out of the window of the upstairs master at the SoMoToHo, which I’ll get back to in future posts very soon (promise). This Mexican plum joins saucer magnolias, […]
