Donut fenders

Vlad and I went to the beach Sunday, kind of a last-minute trip. We went to visit with Terry and Linda. It's the first time we've seen the house since Hurricane Rita. Kitchen ceiling is messed up, but overall, it's pretty much a relief to see things fairly in order.

Vlad and Terry caught a flounder and a trout, which we gobbled up for dinner.

Vlad and I took the ferry over. I was shooting photos of the gulls and pelicans. He said these big things in the water, which he calls fenders, looked like something from work. So I took a few shots of them just because. Today he discovers his boss worked on them. He asked me to email some photos of them. Then they remind his boss of something and he incorporates it into a new design.

Things work out in strange ways sometimes.

Bluebonnets

It's bluebonnet season. Vlad and I and Lana went driving the backroads a couple of weeks ago to find some and take photos. I want to make a slideshow for Vlad's sister when we go to Odessa in August. I want to include as much Texas culture as possible, thus the bluebonnets.

We drove west up toward Brenham. We ended up just east of Industry, Texas, on some little farm roads.

It's not a great year for wildflowers. It's been very dry, even with all the hurricanes. Today it was 92 degrees. (It's so high that the geniuses in charge of the state's electricity were forced to institute rolling blackouts for awhile in Houston. You'd think with their insane price hikes in recent years, they'd have spent some money on planning for such things.)

Anyway, here are some photos from April 2.