Wordless Wednesday: A Greener Getaway

Wordless Wednesday: Loungin’ Lizard

Wordless Wednesday: A river runs through it…

…”it” being Kerrville, TX.

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Wordless Wednesday: Caffeinated Doodles

Mocha and soy latte (and Jill’s knee) at Olmos Perk, San Antonio.

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Flash Mob at the Farmers’ Market!

You know what a flash mob is, right?  When seemingly random people spontaneously break out into song and/or dance in crowded public places?

(from Pearl FM’s facebook page)

Apparently a full orchestra can do this.

I had my doubts when called up Thursday afternoon about participating in one of these on Saturday morning in San Antonio.  We’ll have our instruments…won’t that seem obvious?  Are we memorizing the music?  Is it going to be super cheesy? (surprisingly not/no/cheese is good)

The group was made up of San Antonio Symphony members, students, teachers, and other area freelancers like me.  The plan was to run through the William Tell Overture a couple times at 9am at Trinity University.  After that we would all gradually head over to the popular farmers’ market at Pearl Brewery and were told to wander around ignoring each other.  At 11am, the english horn player would start playing her solo; we were beginning at the middle of the overture.

Wordless Wednesday: Got Rain?

This is just by the curb…not in a desert!

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Little Czech Bakery: Kolache Pit Stop in West, Texas

Guess what!  I’m going to be fancy and do a block quote.  What’s the occasion?  Kolaches!!  (aka Czech bun-type things filled with yumminess)

There’s apparently a big Czech/kolache center in Texas; sounds like I need to do some traveling for science (or vicarious traveling…maybe I can find a Texan-baker willing to do some research…? >.>).
- Mary from n00bcakes on kolaches

Howdy!  I am happy to report that this Texan-baker (1/4 Czech/Bohemian to boot!) has finally done some field research for blog pal Mary.  The Czech/kolache center that I assume she was referring to happened to be on the way to New York, but umm, much closer to San Antonio than my final destination.  It’s in West, Texas and every time I say this, I feel the need to add a dramatic pause where the comma is so as not to sound like I’m referring to West Texas.  Totally not where this place is…it’s 75 miles south of Dallas and 15 miles north of Waco, which is the northeast part of Texas.

This gem of a place is known as Little Czech Bakery which is part of Czech Stop.  There are gas pumps in front of it making it also a gas station, which you can use as justification for stopping to Czech it out (hur hur).   I had to get gas, so this was convenient, but there were so many people that I had to wait 5 minutes.  No biggie.

Wordless Wednesday: Oh Deer…

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Wordless Wednesday: Noon and Dusk

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Wordless Wednesday: Very Vintage…

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