Sara surprised me with a trip downtown to McKay’s Bakery for lunch today. We stopped in for cupcakes a few weeks ago, saw they offered lunch, and made plans to come back. Today, we came back:

Vegetable Beef Soup in a Sourdough Bread Bowl
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A few weeks ago, I was joking around with the captain of the church softball team. I told him they should hire me to be the team photographer. He told me that he was interested, but I would have to submit some work for approval. I sent him a link to my [...]

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Happy Saturday! A random shot from my assignment yesterday.

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In the past two weeks we’ve had high temperatures of 48, and 88 degrees, which means Spring (all two weeks of it!) is about to hit Abilene.
I found these small buds on a vine outside the Bible building on a lunch-time walkabout.

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Last week I was in the Portland area for work. I had a flight voucher from getting bumped off a flight last year, so for about $50 Sara was able to join me for a few days and have a mini-vacation. On Sunday we drove over to Cannon Beach to check out the [...]

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On a recent business trip to Houston, I shot this fuzzy looking plant in my hotel room. I’m posting it here simply so I can enter the PhotoFriday thingie…

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Some guys do roses. Some do chocolates. Some do Crock Pots.
Me? I do plumbing.
I have always heard that you should never buy anything for the kitchen (or an appliance, like a vacuum, etc.) as a present. I also used to worry about what other people would think about my gift-giving choices. [...]

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Sometimes, on the way to work, Sara and I like to stop off at out local supermarket and pick up these small, round pieces of fried dough with some sort of frosting on top.
Up until recently, they were called “donuts” (and sometimes even “doughnuts”). Then, one day, we walked in, and they were no [...]

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Another shot of shoes, this time a collection of them hanging in the Gulu town market. You could insert your own comments about this being indicative of the larger relationship between the West and developing nations (hand-me-downs, discarded items cleaned up and passed on as throw-aways which make us feel better but do they [...]

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