The Mighty 90
Exodus
Traffic is thick everywhere as Houston drivers who normally avoid the freeway use it to avoid congested surface streets with non-functioning traffic lights.
As a EZ-TAG card carrying user of the Houston toll system, I am personally frustrated with the fact that Houston has opened up the toll roads to all traffic for free. This has caused congestion on my main means of getting in and out of town. I am counting the minutes till Saturday when the tolls are once again enforced and the riff-raff is relegated to the FREE-ways.
New Quilt
Cynthia has completed her latest quilt. It’s called “Jay’s Shirts Travel The World.”
During the course of creating my many custom shirts, Cynthia has ended up with a lot of unusual scraps of fabric. One of her goals is to make a quilt for each room and she created this one to hang in the laundry room. Each panel represents one of the shirts she has made for me placed in a situation that is in some kind of contast to the theme of the shirt.
Click on any of the panels below to see an enlargement
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There are only 12 shirts represented, but my collection is well over 30 at this point.
Here are some additional detail shots to show the stitching and the buttons that were added to each panel
Photographing this quilt was a great opportunity to use the new flash unit.
Tango Criollo
Each Monday night at The Continental Club with Glover Gil
El Orbits – Casual
Experimenting with the flash at the back bar of the Continetnal Club. Possibilites are starting to take shape.
Dooley Dooley Doo!
As I was pondering our possible fate when IKE approached I considered a “worst case scenario” in where I was holding the pet carrier with Dooley cowering inside high above my head while the water rose up and destroyed my material possessions. I am glad that it did not come to that.
Banner Yet Waves
I find the image of the Texas flag in tatters with the Marathon Oil Tower as a backdrop somewhat compelling. Shot on the fly when I was picking Cynthia up from work.