Monthly Archives: July 2009

hot summer days in the house

It is SO damn hot. I think we’re on day 30+ of temperatures over 100 degrees. And we still have 2 1/2 months of misery to go. I can barely motivate to run errands (no idea how my pregnant friends are coping this summer) but I did manage to hit the bank, the post office...

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Sunshine Community Garden

When Sarah mentioned she has a plot at the Sunshine Community Garden, I jumped at the chance to schedule our session there. It’s an inspiring place for the fledgling gardener in me and there was something so cool about taking photos of a family where they grow their own food, surrounded by evidence of others...

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Sarah Jane and her crew

Sarah Jane, her husband, Miguel, and her girls came to Austin from New Orleans 4 years ago when they were evacuating Hurricane Katrina. They found a rental house through craigslist on an amazing plot of land overlooking a nature preserve.  When they decided to stay in Austin, they bought the house. (Good news for us...

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Rhonda and the boys

I’ve been messing around with this purty new blog for weeks now. Seriously. Weeks. These templates really are very straightforward and I’m really not a perfectionist so I’m not sure why it took so long. I still have some tweaking to do but I’m guessing that my mom and I will be the only two...

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