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The early morning sun peeks through a glen in west Houston. --steve buser Technorati Tags: Sunrise , Houston , leaves , bright , tre...

May the Star of Bethlem shine your way this Christmas. --steve buser

Our grandkids came to visit a while back and their friend, Jenna Anderson, took them to see her FFA project -- Randy the goat.   Sophie g...

The weathermen and weather ladies said Beaumont received three inches of snow this week. Maybe at the weather station it did. There were...

  Flags in the sunset from a couple years ago at a church in Beaumont Texas.  You can tell the flags had quite a whipping in the wind. On...

We ran into Indiana Jones at the mall in College Station. TX, this weekend. (Actually, he prefers to be called Dr. Jones, if you please.)...

It was a lazy day at the Houston Zoo this past weekend when we were there. It wasn't all that hot, which brought lots of people (we...

This is the American Bald Eagle at the Houston Zoo. We took our grandchildren there recently to see the elephants. This guy didn' get a...

  The water slides up and along the beach at Perdido Key in Florida. While a couple figures splash along. --steve buser

  This was the steely-blue scene in Washington D.C. recently when we travelled to see our son in a triathlon. The sun was still yawning a...

  This is one of the gators at the Louisiana Gas and Oil Museum in Jennings, LA, where I stopped off the Interstate the other day. If I ...

Bath time. Save these pictures for the next time the kids complain. Even ducks like to take baths. This fellow was ruffling his feat...

  A Great Egret and a Comorant seem to be having a stare-down on the small lake at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings, Louisiana. ...

This is the Washington Monument in Washington D.C in an early-morning, before-sunrise shot. We were up early to make it down by the Tidal P...

A Great Egret ( Ardea alba) skims gracefully away over the water to find a better feeding spot. This is at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park ...

  I looked down and this Ring-Billed Gull was standing right beside me. Maybe he was just trying to get a hand-out, but he stood still lon...

  The Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. is a good ways away from the other monuments.  The lazy walk around the tide pool to get there...

  Who would have ever thought that if you went more than 200 miles from where a hurricane hit, you would be lashed with tropical storm forc...

  No idea. I had absolutely no idea there were so many varieties of gems and minerals in the world. We were touring the Smithsonian Nat...

  They're mostly considered a pest. Nonetheless, the they have striking markings. This European Starling came right up to the table...

  An elderly lady gets escorted on to a evacuation bus last week by a photographer, while a National Guardsman helps with her pet. The tho...

  A young man ventures only into the shallow waters, aware of a storm heading into land far to the west. The Perdido Key area in Florida ...

  It was a time for hunkering down Sunday as Hurricane Gustav roared toward Louisiana and made the Perdido Key area in Florida an express l...

  Wading in a pond is not only a way of getting food, but also a way of staying cool on hot New Orleans afternoons. These two Ibis were at...

Rain drops. Outside my window. The weatherman said the afternoon would be clear, dry and low humidity. So it goes. --steve buser

  Okay, you can take back what you said about being stupid as a bird. Take it back. This feathered fellow was faced with an obvious prob...

  A phantomous Great Egret glides over the lagoon in City Park, New Orleans, while its image glides in rhythm with it across the glade-gree...

  An Great White Egret navigates through the top of the trees at Oschner Island in Audubon Park, New Orleans, to zoom into its nest.  Once ...

  This is an Io Moth caterpillar that was hanging just a couple feet from me the other day in New Orleans. These caterpillars like their s...

  The rain finally stopped just short of noon. It was the 7 a.m. to about 9 a.m. time frame that did the damage. For a while, rain was com...

  The end of the slide has come and you now slip into another feeling, another being. You let the water surround you and shoot past your f...

  Trees can only sit and oogle as the sun wraps its majesty in princely clouds -- this photo was on the road (I-10) from to Houston, Texas...

  Okay, you have climbed and climbed. You've justled and pushed. You bounced past all those other water drops. You're at the top...

  This picture is from the Triathlon at Moody Gardens on Galveston a couple weeks ago. The center rider is our son, Charli. The small grou...

  At the beach in Galveston, our grandson practices the fine art of wave jumping. Our daughter, Vicky, and our son-in-law Aaron, also di...

We were in Galveston this weekend for our son, Charlie's (Chuck) first triathalon event. He ran his first marathon in January and ra...

  Waiting. Waves lapping close. Waiting till the family returns from their sea shell hunt. The buggy sits at the beach in Galveston, TX,...

  We've got babies next door! The Mourning Dove that has been silently brooding in the tree out our bedroom windows had her babies la...

  Waiting for dad to come by at the Houston Marathon a couple weeks ago, this young lad took advantage of a nearby hill for some play tim...

I can not report this first hand, however,  they say that last 200 yards is maybe the toughest in the whole 26.213 miles of a marathon. If...

While we were standing around in Houston waiting for the marathon runners to come by, this scene unfolded across the street. The Methodist...

These lily pads get to play in the sun on the tranquil Rio Dulce (sweet river)in Guatemala. We took the boat ride up from Livingston two ye...

Alone with your thoughts and a gentle breeze that keeps bringing you back to the moment. The lake is whispering in staccato cadences -- w...

The famous Soji Tabuchi Show in Branson Missouri is not just a delight for the ears. The show comes right at you with a cornucopia of color...

It's an all-American tradition, the holiday parade (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, and more I guess) . However, when you have the mou...

From the Stark House website : "Completed in 1894, the Queen Anne home of William Henry Stark and his wife, Miriam Melissa Lutcher St...

At the state line, as you cross from Louisiana to Texas on the I-10, they have a huge star at the welcome center. Of course it doesn't...

Guess what my grandson Sullivan got Papa for Christmas?  He does his own shopping at the dollar store and it is a real pleasure to see wha...

It seems there are broadcast booths set up all over New Orleans for the BCS College Football Championship game here Monday night. In this ph...