July 15, 2009 – Brandon Moeller

On July 1, 2009, Kim and I visited historic Gruene Hall outside of New Braunfels. Standing outside, a biker saw us and offered to take our photo. We obliged — who wouldn’t? — he was a biker.

Biker photo — The biker took our photo, though I'm pretty sure his bike stole the frame.

Then, Kim took my picture outside of the historic building.

101_4333alter450 — Some guy in front of Gruene Hall.

Then, I took her photo.

And later, using Adobe Photoshop, I combined the two individual photos to create an image of us together, in front of a full view of Gruene Hall.

Gruene Hall together — Grune Hall: We were there, together.

Then, later the combined photo was printed in a Shutterfly book I made for Kim.

Gruene Hall photo in book — Here is the adjusted photo as published in the Shutterfly book.

Of course, the gallery of the photos I took during our Summer 2009 vacation can be seen here: day one and day two.

So, I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. Since at least June 27, when I found my friend the frog hiding in my shoe again, on the first workday morning of my vacation. That morning, I shook my shoe as I always do, in case there’s something cold blooded in it. Then I felt the frog, and I grabbed my camera and snapped the following shots …

So, the frog jumps out. — "Aww, what the hell, I was dreaming of fireflies."

Then the frog pretends to be a shoe as he sizes me up. — "You can't see me. I'm a shoe. You don't look that tough, anyway."

Assuming I'm sympathetic to his slumber, he hops back on the shoe. — "You really don't mind if I go back to sleep? Don't mind if I do ..."

"Wait a minute," he thinks, "Did you just take my photo? Look, man: This is my shoe." — "That's right. This is my shoe."

"That's what I'm talking about. A nice sleep in my shoe home. Zzzzz..."

"Awww, c'mon ... why'd you go and shake me out of the shoe again?"

"Does this look like the face of a happy frog? I'll get you next time."

And then, on July 10, as I was preparing to mow the lawn early in the morning before it got too hot, I found the frog in my shoe again. So I grabbed my good camera and captured the following …

"You'll never find me over here, where I blend in perfectly."

"You got a lot of nerve waking me up like that, pal."

Day: July 15, 2009

Gruene Hall: We were there (together)

Return of the frog in my shoe