This week's vegetables from the farmer: okra, squash, carrots, purple hulled peas (a cousin of black-eyed peas) and a cucumber. I wish I was more fond of okra - there's a lot of it.
I know this is going to sound strange, but I'm going to miss this box. I've enjoyed looking at it since we were packing. I guess eventually we'll have to try the wine. (This was one of the boxes we got from another couple after they moved.)
Last week the arch in this photo was missing its top. It's the 400-foot tall "signature arch" of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge that will connect downtown and West Dallas. Santiago Calatrava is the designer. We can see this from the side of our office building that faces the meeting of several highways called "the Mixmaster."
I discovered recently that there are red varieties of crape myrtle trees, and though I'm fond of the many shades of white, pink and purple that are more common, I really like the red ones too.
I love this type of ornamental grass. It has great texture and color, looks nice in a breeze, and has soft, furry "tails."
A couple of days of cloudy skies and air pollution warnings can make for a pretty sunset, especially when reflected off a glass building.
Late dinner at the Blue Goose - needed a margarita. Yummy Tex-Mex in the new neighborhood.
This is what's usually waiting for me when I get home from work--Beryl!
In January I began taking classes in Improvisational Tribal Style belly dance. These are the coin scarves we wear to practice. This kind of scarf is really more for "shiny" dancing, but the jingling does let you know if you're moving! ITS is a group-based dance where you follow a leader, and the lead switches between dancers. After basics class and intermediate (a challenge, but the teacher encourages a friend and I to stay) I watched the start of the performance group's practice. When the teacher yelled, "anyone need to borrow a sword?" I chuckled - that's not something you hear every day!
Summer has officially begun as HOT. High temperatures have been hovering around 98 degrees, and tomorrow it's expected to reach 100. Shade is good!
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