Total: 62 posts
Posts in: photos
- At 2pm Friday everything was fine.
- At 3pm Friday our Melbourne flight was delayed two hours, but our Dallas flight was delayed four hours, so we would miss our connection, and the next DFW-MEL flight …
photos
Afternoon hike at Ghost Falls trail down in Draper.
Three round trips in twelve days (San Antonio, Huntsville, DC) means I need to take every opportunity I have to get outside while I’m here.
photos
This beautiful clock has been sitting in our house since Thanksgiving, making noise only when we passed by it too heavily.
As of yesterday, it makes very satisfying bongs every fifteen minutes and chimes the hour.
I am very pleased.
photos
travel
Stopped in lovely Cortez, Colorado, again last night and came across these cool UV-sensitive murals of Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, and Gandhi.
They were in a back alley connected to a parking lot; we were just lucky to spot them walking back from …
photos
Thanksgiving in Ruidoso always comes with a real fire with real wood, which makes me happy.
photos
travel
Dinner last night at Bottom Shelf Brewery in Bayfield. Ordered a flight assuming the usual four; turns out I could have gotten all eight at once. Had to order another to complete the set.
(Micro-review: tasty beer, a bit too thin. Green chile and …
photos
The shadow of the tree on the roof across the street formed a matching pattern in last night’s frost.
photos
Living so close to mountains means we get cool effects when the sun is at low angles. Here’s tonight’s sunset just barely illuminating the ridgeline and casting deep purple shadows on the lower slopes.
photos
versenotes
New Bible day! I heard about The Brick Bible and thought maybe it was an epic Lego set for constructing scenes from Scripture (I would spend enormous amounts of money on such a thing).
But it’s even better than that: it’s a complete Bible …
photos
The mountains turned bright red yesterday during sunset.
photos
I should put more pretty pictures on the Internet. Here’s a beautifully clear shot of the mountains over the middle school where I walked Tuck yesterday. I love that I can see mountains now on our walks. #nofilter, as the kids used to say.
photos
travel
Once again, this Minaal bag is the perfect one-bag traveler.
I got like six free books at Craft + Commerce 2025 this week, and somehow they all just fit alongside a week’s worth of clothes + rafting gear.
In heavy competition with my Bluffworks …
photos
travel
When you haven’t been to Japan since January and you don’t care that Southlake sushi can’t possibly be any good…
photos
This is the second school I’ve seen repurposed into a brewery. It’s not as cool as Idlewild in Colorado Springs, but the idea is still awesome.
photos
travel
Nice hike up Mount Takao, about ninety minutes’ train ride west of Tokyo Station. Beautiful views, shrines, a temple, and a waterfall!
photos
travel
I don’t usually eat conference food, but the opportunity to sit atop Tokyo Big Sight and eat ramen was too good to pass up.
photos
travel
Two sort of opposite pictures from Jackson Hole today. One of a man made structure—a cute little cabin decorated with skis—on the side of a mountain; and the other a family of mule deer who decided our little townhouse complex was a good dinner spot. …
photos
travel
Last summer, we backpacked in Grand Teton National Park. Today is our first day skiing Jackson Hole. This is a great, and beautiful, part of the country.
photos
I assume I will eventually stop taking pictures of the natural beauty of Salt Lake City, but I don’t predict it will be soon.
photos
Skiing Alta
I haven’t been to Alta since the first time I came to Salt Lake City to ski several years ago. At the time, I was just re-learning how to ski 10 years after basically quitting cold turkey when I took a job in Texas after college.
We went today, …
photos
First vert of the season!
photos
Getting some coffee and WiFi at Downshift Brewing in Ruidoso. Got a few hours of work in with a view of the river and some decorations being taken down.
Hopefully we’ll be back later today to, uh, downshift from caffeine to alcohol; their beer is …
photos
travel
This road trip has given us the opportunity to compare many fried chicken chains across more than a thousand miles so far. We’ve hit Whataburger (I know), Popeye’s, and just now Bojangle’s for lunch.
Best chicken: Popeye’s Best biscuit: Bojangle’s …
photos
Took a few days off to stay at a Postcard Cabins cabin, which is a (very) tiny house with a campfire and some chairs. It’s almost secluded enough to feel alone in the hill country. We had a great time, burned a lot of wood, made smores, and …
photos
My primary desk for the last twenty years or so has been a door that I stained and added a fir border and collapsible legs. It gives me a huge workspace, and it reminds me of my grandfather, who helped me make it before I left for college. However, …
photos
Our traditional Oktoberfest pumpkin beer tasting has begun!
photos
In summer 2023, we couldn’t bear the heat in Texas, so we took two huge escape trips: one to Santiago, Chile, and one to Queenstown, New Zealand. As a result, I have snow skiing🎿 pictures like this one dated in August and September.
Unfortunately, we …
photos
travel
The Atomium in Brussels is another one of those World’s Fair buildings (like the Eiffel Tower, but 69 years later) that looks cooler than it has any right to be.
The inside is apparently some sort of digital art museum and cultural archive, but Meera …
photos
travel
The food and beer selection at CDG past immigration is criminally weak for a city that prides itself on food.
Maybe they’re just upset I’m leaving?
photos
travel
Vianden Castle is a short but steep hike from the bus stop, but the views are excellent even before you get to tour the inside.
photos
travel
I have apparently arrived in Luxembourg 🇱🇺 on the Grand Duke’s official birthday. Unfortunately, all that was left when I arrived on the TGV from Paris was the aftermath.
photos
travel
Third Space Coffee in Colorado Springs serves artisanal coffeeee flights. We had to get one… okay, we got three. ☕️
photos
travel
I think we found our wall photo for this trip! 🎿
photos
travel
Meera skis like a girl. By which I mean, she had 2,000 feet more vert than we did today.🎿
photos
Leaving Queenstown yesterday, Meera snapped one of the best sea-earth-sky yonder photos I’ve ever seen. Plane-window photos never work, but New Zealand is so picturesque it didn’t matter. 📸
photos
During our stop in Glenorchy yesterday, we encountered some surprisingly well-dressed travelers on the shore of Lake Wakatipu.
We assume they were there for wedding pictures or something similar, because Glenorchy’s not exactly a formalwear kind of …
photos
travel
Wave to the Pelican on the Outer Banks
In 2019, we went to the Outer Banks for Meera’s birthday. We visited from Corolla all the way down to Okracoke, taking in beaches and lighthouses and sand and sun.
Meera and I are not good at relaxing vacations. We’re always skiing or hiking or …
photos
travel
On the way back from visiting Westside Ale Works in South Melbourne today, we saw these three huge cranes on the same apartment complex. Coming from Texas, it’s refreshing to see rapid high-density housing buildup.
photos
travel
Hot Chocolate and Churros at Barcelona’s Granja M. Viader
In September 2021, we spent a couple of days in Barcelona on our way back from Minorca and Mallorca. We had read that a favorite local breakfast spot was Granja M. Viader. Usually, that means there’s a line of tourists out the door, and Meera and I …
photos
travel
Thirty-Four Hours to Melbourne
Finally in our hotel in Melbourne. Quick recap:
photos
travel
Sailboatlings at Port d’Andratx
In November 2021, Meera and I were itching to get traveling again. We had had our shots, waited past all the international quarantines, and it was time to go again.
We chose to visit Minorca and Mallorca because we had enjoyed Barcelona so much a few …
photos
travel
In This Picture, the Hail Hasn’t Started Yet
What if you went to Versailles as part of your honeymoon, but it absolutely poured that day in November 2017, and all of your pictures were of you and your brand new spouse soaking wet?
On the plus side, I snuck this jacket into my luggage as a …
photos
travel
Lighthouses and Roses
In June 2013, I was on a business trip to Mountain View. I had never been to California before, so I spent as much of my free time exploring as I could.
I drove down to Santa Cruz, and I saw the Breakwater Lighthouse.
Then I went west to Pigeon …
photos
travel
Do Not Gather Firewood
In 2017, we camped in Garner State Park with some friends and took a brief hike the next day.
You’re not permitted to use local “found” firewood, so one of the people with us brought a truck bed full of huge branches we spent a long time chopping …
photos
travel
Waterfall Gully Features A Waterfall In A Gully
In August 2016, I was in Adelaide for a business trip. Okay, I was in Woomera for a business trip, but I had taken a week of vacation on the end of the trip to explore Adelaide.
One day I decided to hike up Mount Lofty. Okay, I decided to walk to …
photos
travel
Switzerland In A Week (Sort Of)
Back in 2018, I had a business trip to Thun, Switzerland. Meera and I decided to make a vacation of it. Over the course of a week, we visited Thun, Interlaken, Gimmelwald, Zermatt, St. Moritz, and Zurich.
In Zurich, we were unwilling to pay for a …
photos
travel
The Second-Most-Ridiculous Hike We’ve Ever Taken
In 2019, my wife and I joined another couple for a backpacking trip in the San Juan Mountains of south-central Colorado. On the way back, we stopped for a day at my in-law’s condo in Ruidoso, New Mexico to recover a bit. But instead of resting and …
photos
travel
The Picture
Some friends and I were talking about The Picture—the one you’re proudest of, the one you always want to show people, the one that makes you wonder if maybe you’re actually a photographer after all.
I’ve taken some pretty pictures, but I think the …
photos
travel
We realized on day 3 of skiing that our skis were conveniently RGB-colored and of graduated lengths, so we posed them for a group shot.
Then I took a candid going up one of the lifts.
And of course we couldn’t let the boots feel left out, even …
photos
travel
Went to bed excited for overnight snowfall to improve skiing conditions. Woke up to exactly half my wish granted: almost 7” of accumulation, but whiteout conditions this morning. ⛷️
photos
Gave a bunch of stuff back to Apple today. These computers got both Meera and me through college and grad school, and it’s time to let go.
The white iPod (3rd gen, I think) was a birthday present when I turned 17 or 18; the iPods Touch tided me over …
photos
travel
Makeshift parfait at the BOS (Logan) Admiral’s Club this morning waiting for our flight back to Austin. 📸
photos
travel
Brunch at In A Pickle in Waltham ahead of a wedding yesterday afternoon. Hot honey chicken and waffles, pumpkin bread French toast, and coffee. Perfect.
photos
Mostly final desk setup, shown here during a video conference we were both attending (on the iPad). The room looks mostly the same, except it has real curtains now and more stuff on the shelves. And we don’t use it nearly as often—we’re in the office …
photos
Our other early-COVID desk, set up not in the office but the guest bedroom. Like everyone else, my wife and I spent too much time on videoconferences to sit in the same room, so we were fortunate to have space to spread out like this. Same monitor, …
photos
Standing desk evolution, a few weeks in COVID. At this point, we still had the blinds open to remind us what “outside” looked like. It still kind of felt like vacation, not yet like the terrifying pandemic it turned out to be. (It did, and still …
photos
Our home office desk before COVID. Made of an old kitchen table and K’nex, naturally. 📸
photos
Day three of desk pictures. This one is an actual working desk of mine from my first apartment in San Antonio after grad school. It looks so much like my grad school desk in my Blackburg apartment I first guessed that’s what it was before …
photos
travel
Yesterday’s desk post made me think of other interesting writing desks I’ve encountered.
This one is from our house in Sóller, Majorca, Spain, from November 2021.
An iPad instead of a MacBook because this was a vacation, not a business trip.
photos
travel
My workspace at Hotel Bellevue in Cazaubon, France, a few weeks ago. I love the aesthetic, but it made me feel like I should be writing a novel instead of PowerPoint slides. 📸
photos
travel
In Corpus Christi for Rio Texas Annual Conference. Tried out Railroad Brewing Company right by the convention center. 📸
photos
Felt bad that I didn’t get much done yesterday, so this picture is to remind me of what I did finish this weekend. Let’s get the short week started strong. 📸
photos
Pro tip: when the sky looks like this, the best time to leave work was half an hour ago. 📸
