Texture

Today I am posting about texture. I love pictures of texture. They're visually as well as mentally stimulating. You can almost feel the picture, especially when the contrast is high and detail is plentiful. I especially love natural texture because I love nature, and it's great to feel as if you're outside sometimes even when you're sitting inside on your butt being lazy and watching Big Bang Theory.

Texas Visit: Fallen Soldiers Memorial

There is a newly installed memorial near my house in honor of those who have fallen in recent military operations. It's super sobering, especially since we think the names are just from Texas people. There are a lot of names. This post is for their memory and in honor of their friends and family who will never be the same without them. May they rest in peace, and may the living soldiers know that they are brave, honorable, and greatly esteemed in my book. After all, my brother is an Air Force vet. Oh, and there's a picture of Don Quixote to cheer you up and dry your eyes.

Texas Visit: Lanier Place

I am back from the Lone Star State, and after 22 years and 11 months of living there I still went somewhere I had never been before. Mark Lanier is a wealthy lawyer from the Spring area, and he has a great amount of property. He's a cool lawyer, though, because he lets people onto that property (at least, part of it) to take pictures and study. Yes, study. He has an enormous theological library on that property along with an adorable chapel. There's even a zoo and a train station and, yes, even a Tardis for you Whovians. We normal people know them as phone booths. Now the access to the property is limited because it is private, which I understand completely, but we had access to the chapel and library. I took pictures like a good photographer.

 Replica of a Mosaic in Turkey

 Book of Esther in Hebrew

 Printed on the Gutenberg Printing Press (though not by Gutenberg)

Life Stuffs

I know, the title is a great reflection of where the English language is today, but you  know what? Freedom of speech, folks. I can speak (or write) like a fool if I so choose. I am basically sending you on a trip into my life with this post. Creepy, eh? As you may remember from previous posts, I am writing a book. I am very close to completing it; my mother will read through and help me edit, then my husband will read it, then (if no one else in my family demands to read it before publication) I will attain a copyright and publish it. Don't worry, I won't have to fight anyone in order to publish; I will self-publish. It's much easier and I get what I want. I know, I sound like a selfish child. Oh well! I'm making up for it by sharing the front cover design. So far. It might change again. On an unrelated note, I have received my very first set of business cards from my job at the furniture store. Yay! I might be a little to excited about those, but who cares? I've never had any before, and they say I'm an interior designer. That's gotta be worth something, right? Below is a picture of one of them. Don't worry, I'm not foolish enough to upload my contact information to the internet. Last order of business is that I am going to visit my family in Houston for a week. Yay! I miss them very much, but I will see them bright and early on Thursday morning. My plane gets in at 1:30 am central time. I will hang out with them until the 14th, so I may or may not be posting in between. We shall see. Tootles, friends!