Everything is bigger in Texas…
I know not everyone likes giant spiders, so I put the pictures behind the cut….
Tag: photography
Good Morning!
Sunrise was at about 7:15am, and I managed to wake up early enough to set up and take photographs three times during the trip. This shot shows the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (in the hills on the left side of the photo) just as the sun peeked over the mountains. A few of my other favorite sunrise photos are up on flickr.
Procrastinating with a Healthy Breakfast
I have a lot of revisions I want to get done today, so obviously the first order of business for the morning was eating a healthy breakfast. Oatmeal is very healthy. So I made some. The texture of instant oatmeal doesn’t do it for me, so I made a nice pot of steel cut oats (which I have raved about before). Steel cut oats take about half an hour to cook, and while they were going, I wondered what I could do to improve upon this lovely and healthy breakfast.
Well, I like oatmeal, but I like apple pie …
Mid-Trip Post
Not a lot of posting lately, as I’ve been (and still am) up in the Pacific Northwest visiting family and friends. It’s been great catching up with everyone, and the trip has been a good escape from the 100+ degree heat we’ve been getting down in Austin.
Hiking at Mt. St. Helens with my brother, his girlfriend, and my dad (who took the picture):
Ocean Waves:
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Ingredients
Lots of cooking today, starting with mango salsa. I’ve photographed the finished product before, so today I decided to try my hand at composing a still life from the ingredients: mango, red pepper, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, salt & pepper.
Apple Upside-Down Cake
As promised, here is a post about apple upside-down cake:
It all began several days ago, when I made banana bread. I thought to myself, “What would make this banana bread better?” The answer, of course, was maple pecan butter. Flavored butters are very easy to make. For this one, I pan toasted some lightly salted chopped pecans. Then I mixed the pecans with a couple tablespoons of maple syrup and most of a stick of butter. As I suspected, it was …
Paper Umbrellas
My original plan for this weekend was to go out to west Texas and see the observatory (Peter’s been out working at the telescope there), but I caught a bit of a cold, so I ended up being home instead. To amuse myself, I took a series of photos of paper umbrellas, which I think came out pretty nice:
There are several other shots on flickr, including a few featuring gummy bears:
Leftovers
I had half a steak left over from last night’s dinner. A bit of rummaging through the fridge turned up some spreadable swiss cheese, pesto, roasted red peppers, and an English muffin. So for brunch* this morning I had an open-faced steak sandwich.
* It’s brunch because it’s too early in the day to call it lunch, and I skipped breakfast.
Maintenance had to come in and do some routine work on my apartment yesterday (replacing some of the outlets in the kitchen, or something like that), and rather than listen to them bang around, I decided to go out and do a little photography:
I like some of the pictures I got, but the session may have been a mistake — I got perhaps six or seven decent pictures, but I got ELEVEN big red itchy bug bites. And I was only out for an hour! …
Fruit Tart!
I haven’t put up a lot of pictures of food lately, but Saturday night I went to a lovely gathering with tacithydra, jess_ka, and ellevate. ellevate brought a fruit tart, and jess_ka brought star fruit, which means I got to eat this:
(It was delicious.)
