honoring the winter solstice

diamond dust

merry Xmas from yellowstone

winter solstice

was yesterday.

Places of Magic: Plitvice National Park, Croatia

amazing slideshow on Croatian park website:

http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/hrv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=121

(but that picture is actually Swallow Falls in Wales)

Places of Magic: South China Karst

UNESCO World Heritage site:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1248/gallery/

Lemony Snicket

how spooky!!

hot and heavy

i like him

pigeon tracks in the sidewalk

i don't quite understand this....

but it certainly is magnificent.
the description was all in German...
that's a christmas tree back there.

magical san antonio thanksgiving in new york

composition

isn't that something?

weepy inside and out

Song of My Soul

San Anto

i had the epiphany that
i have a San Antonio chola body -
the barrel belly and flabby haunches,
the most overflowing of muffin tops
rising over too-tight pants or
(godforbid) little shorts.
always with flip flops.
perhaps i should just start dressing the part to fit in.