“Sunset Deck” Marble Falls, 2020
Mariko and I took a short drive to watch the colors change over the Texas Hill Country at Sunset Deck. It was really beautiful!
The View from Sunset Deck
“Sunset Deck” Marble Falls, 2020
Category: Slice of Life
“Sunset Deck” Marble Falls, 2020
First Hummingbird!
“Hummingbird” Cedar Park, 2020
Within a day of replacing our fancy green hummingbird feeder with an inexpensive red feeder, we finally got our first ever hummingbird visit! It was so exciting to see and add to my life-list of birds (#26). How exciting!
“Hummingbird” Cedar Park, 2020
“Hummingbird” Cedar Park, 2020
Black and White Cloud and Color Time-Lapse
“Black Sky” Cedar Park, 2020
Today we had some fun clouds roll through so I set up my camera for a time-lapse. You can see it below. The still image wasn’t very interesting so I decided to choose a filter in Silver Efex Pro to make it a bit more dramatic. 😊
I hope you had a good day!
Curry Night!
“Beef Curry” Cedar Park, 2020
Curry Nights are the best! ❤カレーライス
Lots of heat in this one. The eggs don’t look so great (a bit too hard and the eggshells stuck!) but they were yummy. As usual, I ate too much. 😋
Small Accident
“Tacoed” Cedar Park, 2020
A bit of bad news today: my bike is out of action for a few weeks.
I usually keep my bike in the garage, in front of my car. We have a 2-by-4 on the ground to keep the car going too far and hitting the bike, but a normally-careful teen driver in our household came in too fast and went over the wood and plowed into my bike, pinning the wheel against the small curb in our garage. I was in my home office when I heard the crash, and I initially thought he just knocked the bike over, but upon closer inspection, I noticed that the wheel was “tacoed”, which means bent in the shape of a taco.
I took the wheel to the bicycle shop and they said it was beyond repair and unfortunately they wouldn’t have any replacement wheels for two months. 😮 If you didn’t know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge demand for bicycles and subsequent shortage available bikes. And that shortage also extends to bicycle parts. Luckily I was able to find a rim on Ebay that appears to have the same dimensions as my damaged one, so I am hoping it will be any easy swap. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it won’t arrive for another week-and-a-half, which means no evening bicycle rides for a while. 😞
Still, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a huge (nor expensive) deal. And it’s the first damage that my 20-year-old bicycle has suffered, so I should consider myself fortunate!
