it's a great picture killy. good job.



the nice thing aout agriculture is that it is seasonal. i bet they were burning the fields before you were born, and will do so for some time to come.



my commute was pretty rough today. there was a large athletic bag jacknifed on the second landing. took seconds to get around.

that previous picture of adolfo iv was in a field we stopped at on our way back from picking up sra. mercado in edinburg. it had been a long time since i had made a field stop during a trip to the valley.



i left home right after high school to start school in edinburg at UT Pan American. My step-father had given me the blazer as a graduation gift, i used it most of the time anyway, and had done a lot of the maitenance on it through high school. I remember the day i packed up all my belongings (there weren't that many) in the back of the truck and left home. I hardly felt the six hours it took to get down south.



I made the trip between houston and the rio grande valley frequently. my favorite time was during the autumn; september and october specifically. from weslaco i would take a series of backroads my father had showed me to get to 77N which would lead me, eventually to houston. along these roads were seemingly endless fields: sorghum, cotton, corn, cabbage, onions, and my favorite, sugar cane.



in the autumn, they burn the sugar cane in order to harvest it. and it's beautiful. it smells beautiful (although, i can imagine that the insectiside ridden smoke is pretty bad for you) - like the way coke feels good when it burns it's trail down your throat.



and i would stop and watch them burn the fields. i kick myself that i never got a photo of this. not a one.

i spent a day in munich when i was travelling in europe. i got there in the morning. i had taken a night train from paris (i think). it was near 10 when i got there. i put my backpack in a locker cause i planned to leave that evening for prague. i made my way through the train station and was helped by a kind of 'tourist helper', which i hadn't seen anywhere else in europe. the guy was nice; he gave me a decent city map of sites and pointed me in the direction of a nearby square, or sorts. it was a nice walk through the city.



when i made it to the square, there was a really large ornate, but somehow plain (if that's possible) cathedral. across the way from church was a beirgarten! and they were serving already. i had a giant 'pitcher' of beer, it was great to be so drunk in the late morning, but not so great when i got on the train later that evening. and even less so the next morning. but that's what vacations are for right?

well, i'm sure everyone has noticed that the blog has been acting up lately. it had been generating template errors, so i went ahead and changed it. if you don't like it, i'm sure todd is way ahead of you. i'm sure he's got a 'fix' in the works.

ah, killy...i see you have given me a challenge.



nice to see things working again.



all moved in/out, about to go watch a movie.