Texas Summer

Better than fireworks...

June in Texas

Boots.

Happy Birthday, NPR

40 years!

RT @npr: Which NPR person would you like to have cake with? #happybdayNPR

Ira Glass, of course. But this is Texas... so let's get some birthday tacos, yes?

This week in Austin...

Road ride from Mellow Johnny's.

HB 1 Budget Battle in the Texas House. Legislators filed over 300 amendments and were in session well past midnight.

Texas Capitol dome in the late afternoon...

A little Sunday afternoon dirt worship in the greenbelt.

Bluebonnets in Austin

SXSW Weekend Round-Up

Other Lives at Maggie Mae's

Bike parking on Sixth Street

Haircut from the future, anyone?

Bike parking on the East Side

Big Freedia @ the East Side Drive In

Scars on 45 at Maggie Mae's

Hanna Turi on the roof

View of Sixth Street from Maggie Mae's

Partying with the Swedes

First trip of the season to Barton Springs

Weekend Round-Up

I just got back from Washington, D.C. If you're there, I'd highly recommend:

Taking a tour of the Capitol. I've been to D.C. four or five times, but never had the opportunity to step inside that majestic building. The rotunda was stunning! I also met my Congressman in person and he gave our group some gallery passes so we could check out the action in the House and Senate chambers. (You should have seen my excitement... I was giggling like a five-year-old.)

MatchBox -- great pizza and other munchies in a three-story brick Chinatown building.

The Spy Museum was okay, not great.

A few other things that caught my eye this week:

Beautiful confetti garlands on Etsy.

Mmm... potato & rosemary pizza.

I think my favorite show on television is CBS Sunday Morning. It's part of my weekend ritual.

Look for some more blog postings soon; I just got over a crazy work-life hump and things should settle down every so slightly...

Here's to a good week!

Good Morning, Austin.