A female cardinal eating from the feeder on our deck this past weekend:

Peach blossoms, taken in our back yard yesterday:

This is Sophia, a six-week-old Lhasa Apso that we took care of for a few days last week:

Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church in Pflugerville as the sun is about to set:

Detail from the arena where Hannah Beth takes riding lessons.

I took this photo at sunset while Hannah was taking her riding lesson the other day. I wanted, but was not able, to get in a position where I could photograph the horses without the fences in the foreground, but now I’m thinking that the foreground fences and flora add some nice depth:

Our Golden Retriever Xena has enough retriever instincts that she carries objects–balls, small stuffed animals–around in her mouth frequently, but not enough to reliably play fetch. When I manage to get ahold of her flat ball and throw it off the deck into the yard, she runs after it and picks it up, but she doesn’t want to give it back. If I come near her when she has the ball, she runs the other way, because she doesn’t want me to take it from her. Oh well; she’s cute.

Captured on my way home from work yesterday: proud resident of Pflugerville?

I shot this photo of UT’s Frank Erwin Center (aka ‘the drum’) out the window of my car as I passed by on I-35 yesterday evening. Despite the moving vehicle and my keeping some attention on my driving, I somehow managed to keep the camera fairly still relative to the Erwin Center. The blur in front of it is a passing 18-wheeler in the southbound lanes of I-35. (The Erwin Center was lighted UT burnt orange, by the way)