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We had a pretty strong cold front blow through starting Thanksgiving evening. By last night, all the clouds had gone and the wind had died down, and we had a clear, crisp, calm, beautiful sky. I shot a picture of the moon as soon as it rose above the trees. The wind has picked up a bit again today, but maybe tonight it’ll quiet and we can have the calm stillness and gorgeous sky that we did last night.
We had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner! I tried a new cranberry sauce recipe and it’s amazing! It uses orange peel, freshly-squeezed juice from the orange, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, and cloves, along with the water, sugar, and cranberries. So good! For the turkey, I rubbed softened butter with garlic powder, rosemary, savory, and thyme under the skin and all over the outside of the bird so it was juicy and flavorful inside and had golden brown, crispy skin. I used my mom’s mashed potato recipe and my grandma’s stuffing recipe and they were awesome. Hope yours was just as tasty!
Last weekend, the Shupla family and I went to Bay Area Park to take portraits. The kids had a blast playing on the swings and finding cool stuff to look at in the water, and everyone was a great sport about the not-so-perfect weather (it gets cold even in Houston occasionally!).
I went to Austin a couple of weeks ago and stopped on the side of US290 on my way back to take some pictures of a farm in Chappell Hill. It was warm with a cool wind near sunset, so I sat out on the side of the road for a bit and took a short video of the grasses moving in the breeze.
I went back to Johnson Space Center to watch the hot air balloon glow in the RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival. The balloon pilots lit their burners at the same time or alternated turning the burners on and off after the sun had gone down. It was too cool!
Last weekend I went to Johnson Space Center before dawn to watch as hot air balloons landed on the campus grounds in the RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival. There were so many balloons and it was a blast watching them float through the air.
Flying between Texas and California provides some fantastic views of many amazing landscapes. I was lucky and had clear skies for most of the way both to California and back, and took photos for as long as I had daylight. These are a few of my favorites.
I went to Pasadena, California to present a poster at the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting earlier this month. The first few days were cold and rainy (I thought I was supposed to be able to get away from that by coming to CA!) but the second half of the trip had gorgeous weather. I had the most amazing view of City Hall from my hotel room, and since my body refused to get off of Central time, I was up to see the sunrise every day. It was a crazy trip, and it just about killed the geologist in me to have so many rocks and mountains nearby with no time to go explore!
One of the great things about living in Houston is having a beach so nearby. It’s especially nice in the offseason when there are fewer people, even on beautiful days.
Juliane and I went down to Galveston yesterday. It was an absolutely gorgeous day at the beach. She let me take some photos of her during the sunset when the light was nice. These are a few of my favorites.
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