We are moving back to Texas...A new blog is coming soon... Watch this space!
D-1... the big move back to Scotland is happening tomorrow. The cats were dropped off at the Continental airlines cargo area yesterday and made it safely to London. Our furniture left on Tuesday....
Not sure if any of my readers guessed correctly, so here is what I did a few days ago with 2 friends... We headed to the Top Gun shooting range one Friday evening... ...for a 'ladies only' fi...
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There were two things I wanted to do before moving back to Scotland. The first was to watch a game of basket ball at the Toyota Center, downtown Houston. The proper NBA season has not started yet...
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In the park yesterday... Please tell me in the comments which ones you like/like less and why!
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Along with the thought that I really want to give it a go as a pro when we are back in Edinburgh, comes my new toy (sorry I meant lens), the Canon 50mm 1.4. I had the opportunity to observe a ...
This one was actually taken at Waterton, in the Canadian part of the national park: Montana landscapes: Glacial lakes... Along the 'going-to-the-sun' Road... Old building in ...
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Thanks to my friend Karine M., who was our photographer, we have beautiful pictures of Madeleine's official birthday party. I decided to book a music activity, followed by cake, at Fundamentally ...
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Escaping the Houston heat, we went to Montana for 10 days. Here are a few mountain landscapes... John's Lake: View of McDonald Lake: A delicious huckleberry pie: The 'outhouse' at Polebridg...
Guess who turned one yesterday... There were balloons... Cheesecake... A photo session in front of the cake... Opening presents... Playing in the doll house box... And discoveri...
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Mummy, what is this baby biscuit thing??
After practically three years in Texas, we'd only seen dead specimens of the creature below (usually run over by cars)... But this morning, in a botanical garden just outside Houston... there it ...
On July 4th, we went to Bayou Bend House and Gardens, where they had a celebration. We looked at the inside of the house, which hosts a collection of American antiques, and at the gardens. ...
Today, Madeleine and I tried the Children's Museum of Houston. Imagine a giant indoor playground, chock-full of kids activities, complete with a fake town and water park outside. There's a specia...
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It's fun to go to the YMCA!! (Even though she doesn't look like she's enjoying it, she does most of the time!)
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30 degrees and above everyday... which means... time for the pool! here are a few shots of Madeleine's first encounter with our building's pool... We also go to a parent and baby swimming 'class'...
With H's parents with us, we travelled to West Texas (with baby in tow, of course) for 10 days. We drove to San Antonio, then Big Bend National Park (at the Mexican border), before exloring Marfa...
MADELEINE MAY 2010 - Slideshow
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Last night H and I made a list of the pluses and minuses of living in the US. Here's what we came up with (in no particular order)... THE GOOD -More opportunities to do new things, like trying ...
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So here are the pictures I showed at the Metamorphosis exhibition... If you want a feel for the opening night, the organizer posted a video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuFhuxrFZH4 ...
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A few images from the exhibition opening last Friday. I have 5 photos in the show, presented at Talento Bilingue of Houston until 21 March.
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A few days ago I received - and set up - my home photo studio: 2 500-Watt lamps with umbrellas, on tripods, and a large backdrop stand with a choice of black or white muslin. Here are a few pictu...
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Madeleine seems to think that our friends' dogs are particularly funny!
Whilst in France during the Christmas holiday we had Madeleine baptised in the small town of Poix-de-Picardie. Here are a few pictures from her big day, with a big thank you to her uncle Franck w...
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