Topiary Garden, Houston, Texas

Last year we visited a pretty impressive free topiary garden on Buffalo Speedway in Huston, Texas. Here's a picture of my nephew Brecken enjoying the neat site which lies only a block or so north of Hwy. 59 South. Visit my photo collection for the complete album.

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How Is Oliver The Great Pyrenees Dog?

You may remember that we rescued Oliver from dire circumstances, near death even. The Vet said he had the single worst case of worms he had ever seen. Worse, he had contracted distemper.

Every friend we had tried to brace us for the fact that he would not make it. Distemper would kill him. We chose good medicine, lots of love, and a positive attitude.

Oliver pulled through it but without any significant teeth. Seems to be a side effect. Beats death.

He has a great attitude, is an attractive people loving dog, and with no teeth he can ply rough with no possibility of an accidental nip.

Check out the video of him getting weird playing bite Alan's hand!

P.S. - That's poor, jealous, and doesn't play well with others Trixi barking in the background. We love her too!

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Picasa Photo Hosting Seems Pretty Awesome!

Google has a photo hosting service that I am thinking of using. Hope you will check out the two albums I have added this morning.

If you go to the albums be sure to click on the 'Slideshow' tab above the images.

Amazing, huge photos on a black background makes them look pretty darn good.

And all for free.

If you have a Google e-mail account than you have a free photo hosting account at Picasa that will hold tens of thousands of images. For $20 a year you can go photo crazy!

You can click on the link bar above, the 'Photographs' tab will bring you right to the page.

Let me know what you think.

Alan

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New Photo Presentation System - Check It Out!

I've been looking for a better and less time consuming method to host and present photos to you all. After all, pictures make the site much more interesting.

I am trying out a new system hosting the images at Smug Mug and hope you will give it a look.

There are currently two galleries on the site and MUCH MORE to come. I have included a collection of images from the Art Car Parade from last May in Houston, TX, and also some interesting shots of our visit to the famous Beer Can House in Houston. This man actually spent years covering his entire house with the old cans he had left after an evening of knocking back a few!

Click the link above in the link bar that says 'Photographs' and it will take you to the galleries.

There are many cool things you can do, different ways and sizes to view the images. I shall be adding MANY images of the 14,000 mile Western USA road trip in the coming days!

Alan

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Hooray For Hollywood!!!

I'm actually writing this post from home, where I find myself temporarily.But I did want to update and share some pix and explain the last few weeks.
From Washington state I spent a couple of days in Los Angeles before heading home. There are many more images posted on the Facebook page for those who want to see them. Holywood was fun and I want to go back. Shallow touristy stuff sure, but fun.When I first arrived I thought I could avoid a tour of stars homes and just buy a map. After a half-hour drive to see Steven Spielberg's, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's, and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy's GATES, I plunked down the $$$. Take the Star Tours open top van in front of the Chinese Movie House on Hollywood Blvd. The guide was amazingly informed, hilarious, and knew that while some were driving on the street gawking at famous gates, he was one street over explaining the much more visible backside of the house. Highly recommend this tour, lots of fun. While in L.A. I had 'thechnical difficulties'. My cell phone stopped working, then my laptop refused to go to certain pages. While attempting to diagnose this I must have done something right. For the repair guys! Because now it will not display ANY pages! NONE! But I will be posting more updates and filling you in on future plans so come back her, subscribe, visit Facebook for the photo albums. Alan

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