olympic hate, w. fuqua, houston, tx

i love hand-painted mom & pop shop signs. nighttime on live oak st., 3rd ward, houston, tx

some random road in houston, tx i don’t really like this photo but i have a five year-old breathing over my shoulder begging me to go outside and play so i don’t have time to pick something i really like from today’s outing in the houston sprawl. so much to photograph, so little time.

k <3 s e. 5th st., austin, tx

apple and orange in the rain, tillery st., austin, tx it has been cold and rainy all week.

corn dogg, e. 5th street, austin, tx

clementine coffee bar, austin, tx. a year ago on this date i started the ‘daily photo‘ on this blog. there are 235 photos in the series. i started out with a super low-end concord digital camera that cost $20 bucks. i then had a spiffy canon A710IS. i lost that on a highway near the [...]

once upon a time in the late 1990s i was a contractor at realnetworks in seattle (before they moved into the beautiful headquarters down by the waterfront and were based in a skyscraper downtown). i can’t remember my exact title but it had something to do with content management of realguide.com. the team i worked [...]

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) this is the 2nd time i’ve posted this quote. here is the first in 2004….other mlk [...]

welcome to the poor hause, e. 12th st., austin, tx

calling all nellie/nelly boys… i know this is actually two different streets but the juxtaposition of words is golden. corner of nellie st./academy dr. on s. congress, austin, tx.