Coffee with Kendra

I've been spending way too much time on facebook lately! In doing so I have gotten in touch with old friends, family members, classmates, and acquaintances. One of my facebook friends is Kendra. We didn't know each other very well when we were in school but had a lot of friends in common back in our home town of West Plains, Missouri. Kendra found me on facebook recently and we've discovered that we live just over 20 miles from one another here in Texas! What are the odds of 2 West Plains girls ended up so close in South Texas??!! We decided to meet for dinner and coffee last night and we brought our daughters along too. Kendra's daughter Erica is a senior in high school and my daughter is a junior. The four of us talked non-stop for nearly 4 hours and only stopped then because we all had to get home and it was getting late. Kendra and I hit it off and so did Heather and Erica. All four of us had such a good time! Once we all got home we discovered that Heather and I chatted about our evening nonstop all the way home, and Kendra and Erica did the same thing! All four of us are looking forward to getting together again soon!


My friend Steve is one of our mutual friends. Steve reminded me several times to TAKE MY CAMERA!!! So, Steve these are for you!

Our daughters, Heather and Erica. Couple of cuties!

Gotta love that Erica loves photography as much as Heather and me!!!!

After coffee we decided to walk around downtown and show Kendra and Erica around. We all stopped in front of the fountain for photos.

Kendra and me:

Erica and Kendra:

This is what Heather, Erica and I looked like all evening!

Heather and Erica:

We wondered around downtown and along nearby streets, finding some places the girls decided were just creepy! Gotta love small towns that are quiet enough you can just wonder down the middle of the street at night!

Erica and Heather peeking in the window of one of the buildings:

We told Kendra and Erica that it is tradition for visitors to Seguin to have their photo taken with the giant pecan in front of the court house!

What a fun girls night out with so much chatting and laughing!!! Thanks Kendra and Erica for joining us!!! See you soon!!!

Chiro Java

The day finally arrived. I posted here asking for your help in deciding which photographs I should choose to display/sell at the local coffee shop this month. Chiro-Java is a coffee shop downtown and every month they allow local artists to display their work for a month and can make it available to sell as well. I received the most feedback from that post and am thankful to all of you who left comments, left suggestions on my flickr site, or sent me emails with your opinions of your favorite photos. The decisions have been made, the photos printed, the frames/mats selected and last night was the night to hang the photos at the coffee shop.



Nana arrived yesterday morning, just in time for me to put her to work helping with this task! While I finished my work at the church office, she finished the task of getting the final photos framed for me. I'm actually very excited that she gets to be here in time to see the display and am very thankful for the help she, Erica and Marty were in getting everything framed and in place!!!! A HUGE THANK YOU to all 3 of you!!!! I could not have pulled this off in one night without each of you. With all 4 of us hammering, hanging, pricing, etc., it still took almost 3 hours just to get everything hung. What a wonderful opportunity Chiro Javo offers to local artists to display their work!

Erica and Nana just getting started.

Notice Erica busy yakking on the phone while Marty slaves away!

It wasn't long before Erica took my hammer away from me and got busy.

NOW is it straight, Erica?

Erica and Nana contemplate what should be displayed on one of the walls.

Erica busy hanging more prints.

I put Marty in charge of figuring out what I needed to display the matted prints on the pegboard walls. He arrived and looked at the wall and headed off to Home Depot to get what I'd need. It didn't take him long to come back and get right to work. Thanks Babe!!!

Some of the displays when we were through.

On Thursdays the coffee shop's open late and there's usually live music. I don't know who this man was, but we sure enjoyed listening to his music as we worked.






Nana made me pose with one of the displays when we were all through, so dorky or not, this one's for Nana!





Thanks guys for all your help!!!

If you live in the area, be sure to drop in to Chiro Java and have a look around any time to see what local artists have on display.