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If you're looking for a place to see wildflowers, you don't have to leave Austin. Today, Luke and I visited St. Edwards Park in Northwest Austin with some friends, and I can honestly say I've never seen so many bluebonnets. It was amazing. I haven't been...

We harvested our first ripe strawberry from the garden this morning! According to Luke, it was sweet and juicy, as evidenced by the red juice dripping from his hands and face after he ate it. (Oh, like we would deny him the honor!) We've had some soaking...

I'm going to sound CRAZY, but for the past several weeks I'm been trying to wake up at or around 5 am every day, not just on the days I have a workout at 5:30. Why on EARTH would I do such a thing? To work. On my stuff that is... not on the stuff I do...

Every year, a family of house sparrows builds a nest in a crevice above our back door. We used to try to seal up the hole so they wouldn't be able to build the nest, but they kept pecking through. Eventually, we gave up. Now, it's really fun to sit on...

It's been a very wet spring in Austin. As a result, the snail population has exploded -- at least in my garden. While pulling snails off my vegetables on day recently, I posed the following question: Can you eat garden snails? I was wondering if they...

I'm finally satisfied with my vegetable garden for a change. I've spent the past 3-4 weekends weeding, mowing, and planting, and it looks great. It's really just maintenance from here on through the season. At least I hope. I wanted to share a few photos...

Spring cleaning in the Brummer family yard continued over the weekend with more weeding, mowing and trimming. I thought we had lost both Cherry Barbados bushes in the winter freeze, and we had gone to the Natural Gardener to replace them with two native...

I just wanted to share a few photos from the Wildflower Center today, because we had a lot of fun. The wildflowers are just hitting their stride in Central Texas right now. Waves of blue, red and yellow are visible along many Texas highways. Yards in...

I've become reacquainted with my yard over the past two weekends. Whew! I enlisted the entire family's help in cleaning up the yard/garden. There's still much more work to be accomplished, but we've managed to make progress. Tasks accomplished: Front...

I got a taste of organization yesterday, and I LIKE it! It all started when Andy suggested that we go ahead and move Luke into the big bed that's been stored in pieces in the closets since we set up the crib. It was my bed growing up, and it's really...

I promised to blog a lot during SXSWi. Obviously that didn't happen. It was really the logistics and reality of both mobile technologies and social media. I don't have this blog set up to update from my iPod Touch, the mobile device I carry with me everywhere...

Wow. I mean, wow. I've been wondering the past two days why I haven't been to SXSW Interactive before now. It's just so amazingly crammed full of interesting people and ideas -- it's hard not to be inspired. As a newbie, I have been nervous my cover would...

My iPod Touch is charged. My bag is packed. I have studied the maps, chosen my sessions, added them to my calendar and synced everything I possibly could. I've even packed some snacks for the day. I know I don't have to, but I'm not sure what kind of...