Texas Giveaways

Austin, TX - $25 to Fakdoodle (Austin Mom to Mom Service Swapping Site for) (4/6)

Austin, TX - Mother and Me Tea Tickets (4/11)

Anywhere - Add Space on Texas Blogs, Texas magnets, gift cards, and more (4/15)

Grapevine, TX - $100 to a consignment shop in Grapevine, TX (4/16)

This is Wherever Wednesday

Welcome to This is Wherever Wednesday!  At Wherever Wednesday we share those little moments that really show the character of the places we live.   It started on Budget Blond and, after an intermission, restarted here on Texifornia.

Thanks everyone who posted last month!  Had LOTS of Texans represented...and with the post coming just before Spring Break, lots of vacation ideas.  Seriously, if you're planning on vacationing in San Antonio, Dallas or Austin you need to visit last month's Wherever Wednesday!   (I was really excited about the San Antonio Tips since we're planning a vacation there.)  But it wasn't just Texans posting.  Here are a few of the highlights.

• Taylor Brione shared about her excursion to Dallas, and all the fun things she experienced there.
• Chara of Viva La Vida shared about a stopover in Singapore.  BEAUTIFUL pictures and so interesting!  
• Family Love in My City shared a post about Family Day at Art Space in San Antonio.  Looks fun!

LINK UP YOUR POSTS!

Leave your posts on the linky below and share the "this is Africa, Arizona, San Francisco, Canada, Puerto Rico, wherever" moments in your life!   If you're still a little uncertain what that means, this post over at Budget Blond will help you out.  And, though it's not required, I'd love if you would grab the This is Wherever button on the sidebar and share it in your post or somewhere else on your blog!  Thanks for participating!

This is Texas

My son spit in school...and could have won a prize for it.

  This is Texas

Yep, there was a spitting contest at the elementary school...and the teachers didn't even stop it.  In fact, they gave away prizes!

Yep, spitting beans into a can was just a one of the activities my kiddos got to do for Texas Round-up Day, an event at my kids school celebrating Texas Independence last month.  My oldest won second prize in the "pin the tail on the buffalo contest."  They also got to meet a real cowboy (and his horse).  And they got to dress up like cowboys...or would have if I had remembered (doh...bad mom, bad, bad mom!).

On the flyer it said they could wear jeans, western shirts, cowboy hats, boots,  bandanas, etc.  My kiddo drew arrows pointing at the hats/bandana and said "not required" but had another arrow towards that boots saying "I'd really like this."  (Sorry kiddo, but cowboy boots are expensive).

(Yeah, yeah...so this happened nearly a month ago and I'm just getting it posted now.

It's been a busy month!  But a good one!)

New Photography Souvenirs.

I've added a bunch of new photography items to my Zazzle Souvenir Shop!  You can see my Texas Photography gifts here and my California Photography gifts here.  Right now cards and postcards are 30% off with coupon code CARDCARDCARD  (through June 30).  Check some of them out below!

Texas Sunset Postcards by Texifornia

California Mountain Moon Greeting Card by Texifornia

Mountain Vista Cards by Texifornia

California Buckwheat Post Card by Texifornia

Lamp Post and Bird Cards by Texifornia

California Buckwheat Card by Texifornia
Browse more Photo Cards at Zazzle

Butterfly

And here's a video I caught of these beauties sheltering from the wind.

This is Wherever Wednesday

Welcome to This is Wherever Wednesday!  At Wherever Wednesday we share those little moments that really show the character of the places we live.   It started on Budget Blond and, after an intermission, restarted here on Texifornia.

Thanks everyone who posted last month!  Here's a few highlights:

• From Babushka's Baile there was a wonderful post about viewing a movie filming on an old southern plantation.
• Chara of Viva la Vida shared packing tips when traveling to India.
• Mama Wolfe shared daybreak on a Lake Tahoe ski slope.
• And Just a Small Town Girl shared about North Carolina lighthouses!

LINK UP YOUR POSTS!

Leave your posts on the linky below and share the "this is Georgia, Chicago, Canada, India, wherever" moments in your life!   If you're still a little uncertain what that means, this post over at Budget Blond will help you out.  And, though it's not required, I'd love if you would grab the This is Wherever button on the sidebar and share it in your post or somewhere else on your blog!  Thanks for participating!


New Linky Posted the 1st Wednessday of every month!

This is Texas

Had several "This is Texas" moments this month.


#1   
Passed an orange Lamborghini with a Texas Longorns Decal on the back.  Now that's school pride!

(For those not familiar, the Texas Longhorns are the mascot of the University of Texas at Austin, whose colors are burnt orange and white.)

THIS IS TEXAS!

#2

Of course, this is also Waco, where the colors tend to be more in the green and gold category.  I had the awesome experience of getting to hear Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney read his poetry at Baylor University this Monday.    There was a couple distinct Waco, Texas and Baylor moments that night.   For a poet who writes a lot of deep, thoughtful, reflective and serious poems, Seamus Heaney showed himself surprizingly humorous.  He mentioned that his father  raised cows, so he was really enjoying his time here in Texas, "though, this being Texas, the cows here are a bit bigger."    When he announced that he was going to read his poem, The Baler, the whole room erupted in laughter (because of course it sounds like "Baylor" ).  I'm guessing he picked it for exactly that reason.  And he also read an original poem which he had written for the occassions, and which they were selling prints of, which he said "I hope you pay an exorbitant amount for...you know, for Baylor, not for me."  

This is Waco, Texas...and This is Baylor!

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(Thanks to Pixabay for the Lamborghini graphic.)