Happy Easter!

Some eggs Al & I dyed at Mom & Dad's yesterday.


Note the hippie peace egg. :D


And here's a few from the last days of Christ, a passion play-type thing in Beaumont.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Enough luck to share with you all.....
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Here are some 4-leaf clovers for everyone! :D Hope you are all wearing the green today.

By the way, how 'bout them Houston Rockets??? They are on a crazy 22-game winning streak and beat the Lakers yesterday to complete their rise from 10th place to 1st in the West. Next up: Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. GO ROCKETS!

Fat Tuesday

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Original photo here.

Have a great Fat Tuesday y'all.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a nice holiday season. Here's my 2007 photo calendar:


1. Marquee 2, 2. Bead buddies, 3. CareBears cupcakes, 4. Capitol blue sky, 5. Jeep Makeover 4, 6. Soccer Boys, 7. Bright Aquatic, 8. Laguna Madre sunset, 9. Tequila Monday, 10. My First Halloween, 11. samples, 12. O Christmas Tree

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Also, check out my Avery Island photoset from a little day trip we took to tour the Tabasco factory.

Merry Christmas

Christmas cactus in bloom. Happy Holidays to all!

Dickens on the Strand

This Saturday I met my parents in Galveston for Dickens on the Strand. Check out some photos below and see them all here on my Flickr page.

Lotus Garden Festival

I dropped by the Buu Mon Buddhist Temple in Port Arthur Sunday for the 9th Annual Lotus Garden Festival and Vesak (Buddha's Birthday) Celebration.


My brother Al's meditation group was [unsuccessfully] attempting to sell hot links. They were doing a brisk business in cold water, though - it was hot as Hades.


The gardens were pretty nice. I've started a photoset and hope to upload a few more tomorrow night.

Port Arthur Mardi Gras - Part II

After being under the weather the last few days, I finally got around to posting the rest of my Mardi Gras photos . . . click through to Flickr to see larger sizes.


Mr. T's Famous Pork-a-Bobs




The only place we saw beads being thrown from a building like in New Orleans and Galveston.


This dog had a neck full of beads by the end of the parades.


First came a motorcycle parade.




Then the Red Hussars alumni drum & bugle corps started off the main parade.








Woodland String Band from Philly.


Boys are ready for beads.


As you can see, it was cold!


One float's music was too loud for Emmy.


Baz had these awesome shrimp beads. He wouldn't give them up, but he did give me some cool gator beads. Plus Nikki gave me all the big ones she was wearing. :P


Al got so many beads . . . probably because he's tall and he kept asking for them.




Gettin' there . . .


Memorial High drummers














Baz's friend from work, aka The Bead Connection. I ended up with one of those gator beads, hehehe.


The Valero float was lit up with lots of neon.


One of the concession stands set up along the parade route.




Al stopped to ask the monk about meditation classes.

Unfortunately I went overboard during the parade and used up all my battery, so I didn't get any shots of Rosie Ledet or Robert Earl Keen. Will I ever learn???