It rained today, it rained today!

June 7th, 2011 Posted in Weather Galvez
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Rafter rain

Rafter rain

And, like some kind of Madwoman of Seville, I went dashing out, camera poised, shutter open!

Okay, so you’ll have to squint a little hard at this photo in order to see the stream of blessed rain flying off my barge rafter. Still, since it’s one for the record books (the rain, that is, not my barge rafter, although the barge rafter, coupled with that classic knee brace and open soffit, is a fine example of the Craftsman architectural style about which I do have a small clue and thus, in my humble opinion, a worthy if modest candidate for the historical record…but I digress), I just had to get a shot. Read the rest of this entry »

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Remember who…

June 5th, 2011 Posted in All Else Galvez
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Baby Lindy

Baby Lindy

Walking a prancing Tip late this afternoon, when it wasn’t quite so suffocatingly hot, into the nearby, shaded, historic neighborhood of Cedar Lawn (est. 1924), I chanced upon a great bumper sticker on the back of a car parked on the street:

“Remember Who You Wanted To Be”

Ah, yes, I remember, and had to smile…

I remember a young, bright, blue-eyed, curly-headed idealist and dreamer, childhood cartoonist, young musician, later would-be psychologist, philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and always, ever, ponderer of the big ideas. A genuine appreciator not only of the hardest of hard science but equally of the finest of fine arts, of symphony, ballet, literature, poetry, and all those uncategorized nuances of life that qualify, finally, as art. A cultural and geographic adventurer and an ardent, unrelenting challenger of the status quo.

That was who I wanted to be and that was who I was.

And maybe that was all of us, the last trickle of the Baby Boomer generation. Read the rest of this entry »

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Old Red

May 24th, 2011 Posted in All Else Galvez, Heydey Galvez
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Here’s a new one: I never expected to enjoy a trip to the doctor’s office—that is, until today!

Old Red: Romanesque Par Excellence

Old Red: Romanesque Par Excellence

My enjoyment was not the result of visiting a doctor, of course, but because of what I got to see once I arrived:

Old Red!

Designed by famed Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton, constructed 1888-1891, and repaired 1900-1901 after damage to the central gable during the Great Storm of 1900, this magnificent edifice was built to house the medical branch of Texas’ first state university (called, oddly enough, the University of Texas), whose main campus, it was decided back in 1881, would be in Austin. Read the rest of this entry »

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