Movies and Gardens and Pets. Oh My!

Last weekend a friend and I went to the Alamo Draft House to see the movie, Lars and the Real Girl. It was a sweet, quirky movie and of course the Alamo Draft House is always a fun, uniquely Austin place to visit. If you've never experienced ADH, please give it a try.


After the movie my friend introduced me to a great shop called Ten Thousand Villages in Austin. As we walked from our parking space on The Cir we noticed this lovely xeriscaped garden...


These look like orange cosmos to me.



This tall mystery plant was popular with the butterflies.

As was this milkweed...

Their agave looked healthy and beautiful!

At the end of the day we left for our separate homes and families. Awaiting my friend were her two Dachshunds. Both finished in a 2006 Weiner Dog Race in Buda Texas. Please note their synchronized tail-wagging...

Meanwhile my Slacker Siamese seemed to say, "Oh. Were you gone?"...

I suspect Lily has been raiding the fridge in my absence. Oh, the Humanity! ;-)

With friends, families, gardens and pets, life is good.

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~ Marcel Proust