Eric and I were in Lake Tahoe over the weekend to watch my sister get married.
The lake is pretty like a postcard.
And my sister was beautiful like a girl in a magazine.
(Sadly, this picture of my family in the bare-bones dressing area is the best picture I have on my camera from that evening. But I was in the wedding party and had other things to do besides take pictures, like clutch a bouquet of white hydrangeas and drink a lot of wine.)
It was a fine trip. As I may have mentioned, I got to watch my sister get married, and a lot of other people I love did too.
When we weren't doing wedding things, Eric and I swam in the cold, clear blue lake--colder than Barton Springs, though barely--and watched as a mother duck and her six peeping babies bobbed right past us.
I also lost $30 at video poker in the casino we stayed at and won it all back in the Las Vegas airport on the way home. Last time I stayed at a casino I lost $250 and won it all back five minutes before we got a cab out of there. I can't lose! Nor can I win!
Now we're back, and Austin and all of Texas is still hot and dry. I don't mind the heat much, but the drought is terrible. I try not to let it upset me because there's nothing we can do about it. Still, it's painful to watch the big trees turn sparse-leaved and dusty all over town, knowing that we may not realize the extent of the damage for another year or two.
In much more fun news, I got a cool drawing app recently and have been trying to do a new doodle every day or so. I haven't produced anything spectacular yet; I'm just out of practice and trying to get some momentum going. I hope you won't mind if I post them here occasionally. Today's:
