Category: Texas - The Beth Lists

Somebody Had a Birthday

4/9/2017

Someone got 60 tiny stars for her birthday.

Birthday Girl's daughter wrote a memory on each paper strip... before she folded them into stars.

I climbed in the vase of stars and tried to peek at the writing.

I love secrets.

Caught!

Birthday Girl said "Stop!" She told me she will never open those stars. She said it's more magical to just imagine the memories inside each star.

I said, "Whatever."

Then I took out the stars and wrote the Birthday Girl's age on the kitchen counter!

Texas Wildflowers

4/4/2016

Bluebonnets

Every year I pose with some Bluebonnets. At least I'm not the only one.

Kids, babies, pets and even smooching couples pose in the flowers along the road. At least in Texas they do.

Sunday Drive

We took a drive near Enchanted Rock on Sunday. There were lots of Bluebonnets along the road, but I was getting tired of those.

Indian Paintbrush

I begged to climb up the stem of something with no bluish-purple color. I love the orangish color of Indian Paintbrush!

Railroad Tracks

We found the same combination of flowers near some old train tracks.

On Barbed Wire

Beside the tracks I saw some barbed wire and climbed up so I could sit right beside a flower. I sat in the warm sun and sniffed in the spring smells. Not bad.

A Different Kind of Art

3/7/2016

In Austin

Once again I found myself enjoying some colorful art in the coolest of Texas cities. It was
a lovely March day, but instead of breathing in the scent of springtime flowers, I smelled paint fumes.

Wet or Dry?

Luckily the dripping paint was dry on this sign. I poked my head right through the letter "O". The words spelled out, "CAN LOVE... Graffiti Recycling Program" I guess "CAN LOVE" is the love of cans. And there were a lot of (discarded) cans to love around this place! I guess it was too hard to find the trash cans, since they were covered with graffiti, too.

Where Am I?

I don't expect you to be able to see me in the letter O. You can't even read the words because there's so much paint over paint on this sign.

Noisy Art

From my perch, I stared at the wall-covered hill behind me and absorbed all the designs left by people and their spray cans. I liked what I saw, but I could only look for so long. I think those shapes and colors were shouting at me! Art can look very loud sometimes.

Recycled Rope... in Austin, TX

3/7/2016

Lobster Rope

It's rodeo time in Houston right now, so you expect to see a lot of ropes. But the kind of rope I saw in Austin, was once used with lobsters, not horses or cattle. The recycled rope is painted and an artist named Orly Genger has made it into ART called "Hurlyburly".

Mountains?

The dark and light blue ropes have been woven and spread over the grass near Waller Creek Boathouse. The way everyone was climbing the lumpy creation, I figured they were supposed to be little mountains.

Or Waves

But I was starting to feel woozy as I clung to the rope. It felt like an ocean out there and I was getting seasick.

I was glad when Beth put me back in the bag. I had a feeling one of those leaping, mountain climbers was going to land right on me... and shove me deep into a dark crevice of rope tangles. I might just have nightmares now.

Spring in the City!

3/7/2016

Sweet Smells of Austin, TX

Strolling down the bustling sidewalk in Austin's funky SOCO district, I smelled good things. First it was coffee. But after we passed the long line of people waiting to gulp down their morning caffeine at Jo's, I smelled something better. Honeysuckle? No, it was this tree with yellow puff blossoms! Beth only allowed me a moment to sit. The Greenpeace Guys with clipboards were coming towards us... again. Time to go.

Christmas on the Beach

12/25/2015

Galveston, Texas on Christmas Morning

It was warm and foggy early this morning. Beth posed me on some granite with a tiny fake tree and a Christmas ball, the size of me.

Scary

We were on one of those rock jetty things, with all the water churning around us. I was afraid a big wave would splash me right down into one of those deep cracks!

To the Sand

So we moved over to the sand and found some shells.

Of course Beth had a candy cane and some pine stuff with her.

Why wouldn't she?

Sun!

She pulled out the tree again. She is never able to decide how to pose me. I tried to tell her the sand was wet and this was not what I expected to be doing on Christmas morning.

Shadow

Beth said, "I know, but look at that cool shadow!"

Beth also reminded me that she hadn't expected to be on the beach on Christmas morning, either.

On Christmas Eve, she and Don decided spur of the moment to drive to Galveston and stay a night in a hotel. They had already done Christmas when their kids were in town a few days before.

Beth insisted, "It's too quiet in this house."

Much Better

So I tried to be patient, since Beth was obviously missing her kids. Then she pulled out Santa and Rudolph and it felt a lot more like Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Bowling in Blanco, TX

4/14/2014

First Time Ever!

I told Beth I wanted to go for a roll, all the way down the alley. She was game. After all, this is such an old bowling alley, they have actual pinsetters who set the pins into position. So 12-year old Kevin was waiting at the end of the alley and he could have helped me out.

Changing Balls

But I kept changing my mind. I decided I wanted a pink ball. And then I wanted a heavier ball. Then I worried that I would slip down into the hole and never come out.

This picture shows just how far I made it down the alley.

I kept score instead.

In the Desert

3/7/2014

Just Watching

I like to watch the desert. I found a good spot where I could look over the distant rocky landscape and the sandy ground below.

An Old Corral

Turns out I was sitting in what remains of an old corral. It's hard to picture any animals living in this area near the Mexican border in West Texas.

Still Watching

I found another place to watch the world around me. This wood is from an old fence. Maybe there were cows here once. Or burros. Or horses.

Or Snakes?

Now you know why I like to watch from high spots. See me? I'm keeping an eye out for snakes.

Bluebonnets

3/5/2014

Not the First Time

I know. I've posed with bluebonnets before. It's a Texas thing. Kids do it and pets and young couples like to climb into beds of bluebonnets for posing.

But I had to drive all the way out to Big Bend National Park to see these.

Late February

The bluebonnets start blooming out here a lot earlier. I don't know why, because you can see, it's very desert-y. They also are mucho-sized. Maybe that's because we are very close to the Mexican border. I should have had Beth pose with me. This one was almost as tall as her hip.

I got a nice ride when the breeze started blowing!

Camping Adventures

1/19/2014

At the Beach in Galveston

I have to give Beth credit for going along with my adventure requests. She took me to the beach for some camping in January. But then she posed me with shells.

Been There Done That

I told Beth, I get tired of posing with shells. (It's not my first time on a beach) She quietly pointed to a dead fish nearby. He was about 2 feet long...a little smelly...and Beth calmly said she could pose me nicely in his eye socket, which was the size of me.

No thanks.

Much Better!

I'm in this picture somewhere, climbing all over this giant tangle of driftwood!

Fun

This kind of photo op is a lot more fun.

I could climb all day.

Risky!

It doesn't look like a very daring adventure, but Beth spotted a coyote a few minutes earlier, so I was out here risking my life for this photo! I'm glad my fur sorted of blended in!

This was my first official adventure of 2014!