Back in Austin

I don't mean to make any friends in Denmark or Massa- chusetts feel bad, but our first morning back in Austin was sunny, warm and beautiful. The gods were smiling. This first picture is just down the street from our house, where the road heads down into a small neighborhood park.

It was a great day for photos. It was just cool enough to enjoy dog walking (out of the photo are the four, count them four, dogs I was walking -- two of mine and two of my daughter -- who has been watching the house and dogs. But there was also great horizontal winter light. As the second photo shows.

The neighborhood park is a nice place to let dogs run a bit. It has a pond in it that you can see, along with one of the dogs, Titania, a 10 year old pit bull/boxer mix, who looks a bit fierce but is very sweet.

There is a permanent flock of ducks on the pond, along with a goose who is the boss. And who does not like dogs very much, imagine a lot of honking as the sound-track to this last photo.