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Concrete Slab Patio Austin A picture of a medium-sized, elegant backyard concrete patio with a pergola

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Pergola Patio Austin Example of a mid-sized classic backyard concrete patio design with a pergola

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Spring In The Countryside

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Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot on November 6, 1528 in the area that would become Texas.

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Amarillo, Texas - So yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I made a decision to go back to shooting film, more specifically, shooting the Hasselblad 500CM full time. I shot a couple rolls from a road trip from Las Vegas to Illinois and back. We woke up early in the morning after a night in Amarillo. We were immediately met with fog and mostly just gross weather.

📸 Hasselblad 500CM

🎞️ Ilford HP5

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Rojo Amarillo Rojo No te lo apropies Es de tod@s #Spain #españa #Madrid #atardecer #sunset #rojo #red #amarillo #yellow #landscape #lago #paisaje @photoespana_ #photoespaña #photography #picoftheday #parque #pradolongo (at Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clo1NiFDP7p3fLTE4OfdXdN0Xf2RIUVF_1l4uE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Professional Amarillo TX Tree Care: Keeping Your Landscape Healthy and Safe

Trees are very important to our environment and to the aesthetic and health of the landscape in your property. In Amarillo, TX, trees make properties more attractive, give shade and promote the health of the environment. But trees need proper care, and they also have to be maintained by professional tree surgeons. At Amarillo Tree Removal, we provide the best Amarillo TX tree care services to ensure your trees remain healthy, your property secure and your landscape aesthetic.

For tree trimming to tree removal service, our team of professionals is well prepared to meet your needs. This is why professional tree care is necessary, and how we can assist.

The Importance of Regular Tree Care in Amarillo, TX

Pruning the trees on your property is not only about how they look but also a necessity. Tree maintenance is important in order to keep your trees strong, secure, and alive for many more years. Failure to maintain trees may result in dangers for example, falling branches or a diseased tree that is a threat to your property or your safety..

Here are some of the critical reasons why Amarillo TX tree care is essential for any homeowner or business owner:

1. Tree Health and Growth

Maintenance which includes trimming and pruning of trees is important in order to enhance the health of your trees. Tree trimming in Amarillo involves the process of cutting off unnecessary branches that may be dead or infected through which circulation of diseases will not affect the rest of the tree and crops.

Trimming also helps facilitate free air circulation, as well as appropriate exposure to sunlight that is essential for the health of such a tree.

2. Safety and Hazard Prevention

Neglected trees are dangerous especially during storm or wind breakage since they pose threats to property and lives. Some can fall off due to diseases or are overgrown and may cause a lot of harm to property or even harm individuals. Also, trees which are planted close to the electrical power lines or other structures may be dangerous.

Neglected trees are dangerous especially during storm or wind breakage since they pose threats to property and lives. Some can fall off due to diseases or are overgrown and may cause a lot of harm to property or even harm individuals. Also, trees which are planted close to the electrical power lines or other structures may be dangerous.

3. Preventing Damage to Property

Large trees are also dangerous to structures, pavement, pathways, driveways, and even the foundations of establishments. The roots of large trees can grow under concrete or through the walls of your house. Branches that are too low may rub against the roof and cause scratches on the shingles or even break them, therefore requiring the homeowner to spend some more cash on the shingles.

If you have any doubts that a particular tree is a threat to your property, our tree removal Amarillo TX service will help you eliminate the threat by removing the tree.

Our Expert Tree Services in Amarillo, TX

At Amarillo Tree Removal we have made it our mission to provide the Amarillo community with tree care services that are professional, efficient and affordable. Here at Tree Removal, we have professional and accredited personnel willing to work for you to guarantee the safety and health of your trees.

1. Tree Trimming and Pruning

Among our services, Amarillo tree trimming is one of the most crucial ones you should not underestimate. Pruning and trimming are various forms of handling the trees to keep them in the right shape, healthy, and nice to the eyes. Pruning out dead and disease wood is not only beneficial to the tree but also eliminates branches that will likely topple during a storm.

Another practice we have already discussed in relation to structure is pruning, which is as important to overall health and vitality as it is to the aesthetic look of the trees.

2. Tree Removal Services

There are situations when tree removal is required – if a tree is sick, damaged or poses a threat to your property. Our tree removal service is safe, efficient, and is done by our highly professional personnel. If the tree is a danger to your property or people, or if you just want it to be removed to enhance the appearance of your compound, we’ll do all the work from cutting the tree down to removing the stump if necessary.

A lot of attention is paid to the fact that the tree removal procedure is carried out in a manner that causes little or no interference to your property and the rest of the landscaping.

3. Emergency Tree Removal

Trees also become a threat during storms and high winds because they can be diseased or overgrown. If a tree is down or threatened with toppling, there is no time to waste. At Amarillo Tree Removal, we provide emergency tree removal services which are available 24/7 to ensure you and your property are safe.

Our team will rush to your location to offer you the tree removal or trimming services that can help to avert any dangers.

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Traditional Patio Inspiration for a large timeless backyard concrete patio kitchen remodel with a roof extension

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This photo captures the essence of a Colorado autumn—a peaceful trail winding through golden fields under a bright blue sky. The trees, touched by fall’s brush, stand adorned in vibrant yellow hues, creating a warm, inviting contrast against the open landscape. It’s a perfect moment that beckons for a leisurely stroll, allowing you to soak in the crisp air and the quiet beauty of nature’s seasonal transformation.

Dette bildet fanger essensen av en høst i Colorado – en fredelig sti som slynger seg gjennom gylne åkrer under en lys blå himmel. Trærne, berørt av høstens penselstrøk, står pyntet i livlige gule nyanser og skaper en varm, innbydende kontrast mot det åpne landskapet. Det er et perfekt øyeblikk som inviterer til en rolig spasertur, slik at du kan nyte den friske luften og den stille skjønnheten i naturens sesongmessige forvandling. Det här fotot fångar essensen av hösten i Colorado – en fridfull stig som slingrar sig genom gyllene fält under en klarblå himmel. Träden, berörda av höstens penseldrag, är klädda i livfulla gula nyanser och skapar en varm, inbjudande kontrast mot det öppna landskapet. Det är ett perfekt ögonblick som bjuder in till en lugn promenad, där du kan njuta av den friska luften och naturens tysta, säsongsbetonade förvandling.

この写真は、コロラドの秋の本質を捉えています。明るい青空の下、黄金の野原を通り抜ける静かな小道。秋の筆触に触れられた木々は鮮やかな黄色で彩られ、広がる風景に温かみのある親しみやすいコントラストを生み出しています。これは、ゆったりと散歩し、季節の移り変わりによる自然の静かな美しさを楽しむのに最適な瞬間です。

Esta foto captura la esencia del otoño en Colorado: un sendero tranquilo que serpentea por campos dorados bajo un cielo azul brillante. Los árboles, tocados por el pincel del otoño, están adornados en tonos vibrantes de amarillo, creando un contraste cálido y acogedor con el paisaje abierto. Es un momento perfecto que invita a un paseo relajado, permitiéndote disfrutar del aire fresco y la tranquila belleza de la transformación estacional de la naturaleza.

Ez a fotó megragadja a coloradói ősz lényegét – egy békés ösvényt, amely aranymezőkön kanyarog egy ragyogó kék ég alatt. A fák, amelyeket megérintett az ősz ecsete, élénk sárga árnyalatokban pompáznak, meleg és hívogató kontrasztot alkotva a nyílt tájjal. Tökéletes pillanat ez egy nyugodt sétára, hogy átérezzük a friss levegőt és élvezzük a természet szezonális átalakulásának csendes szépségét. Esta foto captura a essência do outono no Colorado – um caminho pacífico serpenteando por campos dourados sob um céu azul brilhante. As árvores, tocadas pelo pincel do outono, estão adornadas em tons vibrantes de amarelo, criando um contraste quente e acolhedor com a paisagem aberta. É um momento perfeito que convida a um passeio tranquilo, permitindo que você aproveite o ar fresco e a beleza silenciosa da transformação sazonal da natureza.

Dieses Foto fängt die Essenz des Herbstes in Colorado ein – ein friedlicher Pfad, der sich unter einem strahlend blauen Himmel durch goldene Felder schlängelt. Die Bäume, berührt vom Pinsel des Herbstes, sind in lebhaften Gelbtönen geschmückt und schaffen einen warmen, einladenden Kontrast zur offenen Landschaft. Es ist ein perfekter Moment, der zu einem entspannten Spaziergang einlädt, um die frische Luft und die stille Schönheit des saisonalen Wandels der Natur zu genießen.

Această fotografie surprinde esența toamnei în Colorado - un traseu liniștit care șerpuiește prin câmpuri aurii sub un cer albastru strălucitor. Copacii, atinsi de pensula toamnei, sunt împodobiți în nuanțe vibrante de galben, creând un contrast cald și primitor cu peisajul deschis. Este un moment perfect care invită la o plimbare relaxată, permițându-vă să vă bucurați de aerul rece și de frumusețea liniștită a transformării sezoniere a naturii.

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January 1930 Postcard 4 Amarillo, Texas Antoine still thinks I am quite silly to write these out at each stop, being that no one other than myself will ever read them. But I tell him that one day he or I will find this collection and it will be like a window into the past. As I’ve had no camera through the journey, perhaps these will be all I have to remember Texas by. For tomorrow we leave this seemingly endless state to enter the land of our destination: New Mexico. There’s a great murmur throughout the train, both from travelers and tourists, for what they call the Land of Enchantment. Quite surreal, doesn’t it seem, that our new home will have such a reputation? We shall see if it lives up to this illustrious moniker in exactly one week, when we arrive at our destination. The town name seems perfectly at odds with the one given to the state: Strangerville, nestled amongst the hills of the Land of Enchantment. Indeed, I could perhaps imagine no life stranger than the one that has sent me hurtling through the dry landscape of Texas to an unknown land. When you next see the light of day, dearest postcard, it shall be when you are tucked into a book on the shelves of our new home. There perhaps I will find you again one day, when I am old and grey, and it will be like reuniting with an old friend. Until then, Zelda Darlington, soon to be Duplanchier

(That’s right, darlings, it’s your official 1930s announcement! One week from today our Darlingtons arrive in their new home and the story resumes!)

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ELENA DEL RIVERO & CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

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Fue en la casa de su madre, en Lincolnshire, que Isaac Newton tuvo el tiempo y la disposición de ánimo para observar una manzana.

El pecado es acaso solo una cuestión de gravedad.

Las letras de la palabra Adán son las mismas que componen la palabra Nada.

«The redness/ of red» escribió Rae Armantrout para referirse a algo que no entiendo pero que, sin embargo, percibo. «Lo rojizo/ del rojo».

Es verdad que amanece.

La sangre suele ser un lugar común.

En la imaginación popular las palabras «y sin embargo se mueve» siguen siendo una referencia más o menos explícita a la tenacidad o testarudez de la mente científica.

El cuerpo es una forma de la mente y viceversa.

Suele producir algo de inquietud observar a un hombre que retoza bajo la fronda de un árbol o que se desliza como entre nubes cuando atraviesa las calles de una ciudad.

Hay ciudades que, en efecto, se prestan para caminar ya sea con o sin lluvia.

Alguien ha asegurado ya que es muy fácil perder un paraguas.

No sé cuál sea la probabilidad de perder, en cambio, una flecha dorada.

En sus retratos de juventud, Isaac Newton da la apariencia de haber sido un hombre hermoso a punto de morder una manzana.

Todos perdemos, eso se sabe.

¿Es posible que un cuerpo yazga orgánicamente sobre un litoral?

El ruido que resulta de la inserción de los dientes sobre la manzana siempre me ha parecido sensual. En cambio, el ruido que se produce cuando los dientes arrancan el pedazo de la fruta me hace vacilar.

Bilabial, la boca. El beso. El chasquido.

En el esquema RGB, el rojo junto con el verde y el azul son colores primarios de luz. Esto cambia en el esquema CMYK que está basado en pigmentos donde el rojo no es parte de los colores primarios sino el rojo magenta, que junto con el cian y el amarillo están más cerca de los colores primarios sustractivos auténticos que el ojo percibe, y se utilizan en la impresión de color moderna.

El menstruo, ah. Viscoso, real, inútil, el menstruo.

Combinación numérica; ranas palúdicas; palma arquitectónica; espesura escalofría.

La urgencia con la que cruzó la puerta y tomó el pincel y trató, inútilmente, de plasmar lo que veía detrás de los párpados.

Voy gravitacionalmente hacia ti.

¿Mencioné ya los pájaros carmesí, la luna vacía, la larga hilera

de hormigas?

Son pocas las vocales que separan la palabra «monstruo» de la palabra «menstruo».

¿Consiste la meta en colorear el propio yo para así convertirlo en un personaje audiovisual?

Había, en algún lugar recóndito de sus huesos, un aroma contradictorio y una sustancia que no dejaba de manar.

Mis vestigios terrestres. La hipocresía de mis roperos. Mi magnético interior. ¡Ah!

Dentro de la cueva, el pálpito. A cada latido, la humedad. La sangre es un lugar común, lo escribí hace rato.

Las fúlgidas aves; los calosfríos ignotos; el letárgico licor; las fulmíneas paradojas; el radioso vértigo; la remordida ternura.

Aquí no vive un coleccionista de insectos.

Como si se tratara de alguien ligeramente atormentado: alguien con un cigarrillo en la boca; alguien con un pasado muy largo.

Todo era mentira, Isaac.

Vivimos en estado de peligro: lo desunido se une. ¿Piensas quemar mi casa también?, preguntó o dijo.

Había una duna y, sobre la duna, unos zapatos muy viejos. Alguien decía entonces: te quedarás.

- Cristina Rivera Garza

- Elena del Rivero, Domestic Landscape #31, Gouache, hilo, grafito y cúrcuma en papel cuadriculado vintage

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Spring In The Countryside

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Benches/Chairs (No. 86)

Amarillo, TX

Holbrook, AZ

Old Albuquerque, NM

Austin, TX (three pics)

San Antonio, TX

USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, Corpus Christi (two pics)

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No More Mifepristone

Joyce Vance

On the Friday before Easter, just after the end of the workweek in Texas, a federal judge in Amarillo decided that Mifepristone, one of two key drugs used for medicated abortion, should be banned. This despite 20 years of data showing it’s safe and effective. Mifepristone has a lower rate of complications than Tylenol.

The judge also entered a stay, which means his order won’t go into effect for seven days. He did it to give the government an opportunity to appeal. But if neither the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, deeply conservative after a tranche of Trump appointments, nor the Supreme Court orders a lengthier extension, legal access to Mifepristone will come to an end. Not just in Texas, but nationwide.

The government didn’t need seven days. It filed its appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals a few hours after the decision.

DOJ was prepared to file immediately because they understood the inevitable ruling in this case. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who the plaintiffs judge-shopped for by filing this case in the Amarillo division where virtually all cases are assigned to him, has a background of deep antagonism to letting pregnant people make their own decisions. Kacsmaryk’s legal ruling affects the entire country, not just Texas. A federal district judge in Washington State entered a ruling ordering the FDA to keep Mifepristone on the market, just moments after the Texas ruling. But Kacsmaryk entered a nationwide injunction that rescinds the FDA’s approval of Mifepristone nationwide—even in states where abortion is still legal and without exception for the mother’s health.

That’s not the legal landscape the Supreme Court said it was creating when it ended 50 years of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs case. When the Court decided Dobbs, it said decisions about whether and under what circumstances abortion should be legal would be left up to each state. But now, Judge Kacsmaryk has made that decision for all of us—you and me, for our mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and friends, regardless of medical necessity or our personal religious and moral beliefs. Judge Kacsmaryk knows best.

Challenged legal rulings are typically stayed to preserve the status quo while appeals work their way through the courts. But the post-Trump, uber-conservative Supreme Court has always had a different jurisprudence when it comes to abortion, permitting restrictive measures like Texas’s SB-8 vigilante-justice law to go into effect while the appeal was pending. Nothing says “result-oriented” like special rules for anti-abortion litigants (to say nothing of reversing the long-standing precedent of Roe that had worked well to balance rights and did not meet the Court’s test for when precedent should be reversed). It’s tempting to think the Court might decide the Mifepristone decision is a bridge too far, if not based on legal principles and the expectations it set when it decided Dobbs, then out of purely pragmatic political considerations some of Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friends might want to see in order to avoid steep Republican losses at the polls following yet another anti-abortion decision. But it’s difficult to imagine this Court walking it back so close to its goal of extinguishing abortion rights. DOJ has strong arguments to make on appeal—compelling ones on threshold issues like whether the plaintiffs had standing to bring this case, as well as on the merits. Whether the Court will give them a fair hearing is an entirely different matter.

Soon we’ll find out if the Court meant it when it said abortion would be up to the states. Or if one judge in Texas can resurrect the long-disfavored Comstock Act and terminate people’s rights across America. The Act is an 1873 law that makes it illegal to advertise or mail anything, including information, related to preventing contraception or producing abortion (as well as outlawing sending “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral,” or “indecent” publications). The Comstock Act fell into disuse because of its effect on First Amendment rights—it involves prior restraint by the government on speech. The prohibition on materials and items related to contraception was removed after the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which held that Connecticut’s “mini-Comstock” law unconstitutionally invaded the privacy rights of married couples. Be concerned about where a resuscitation of this law could lead.

Restricting abortion today does not seem to be about good-faith conservative values and protecting the sanctity of life. It’s hard to believe that a party that denies access to basic medical care and education and that lets schoolkids die at the hands of mass shooters in the name of the Second Amendment is deeply committed to unborn children, unless it’s become somehow morally righteous to protect them only until they leave the womb. Ending abortion is a political rallying cry, used to bring voters to the polls and raise money, with a healthy side effect of owning uppity liberal women.

It’s really not that difficult: If you’re against abortion, don’t get one. We live in a pluralistic society and there are religions other than conservative Christianity, for instance Judaism, that command their followers to protect the life of a mother over that of an unborn fetus. Somehow their rights are now ignored, while a minority that has gained control of the Supreme Court dictates to the rest of us.

Interestingly, banning Mifepristone isn’t just part of the trend to make abortion less available; it’s also part of the trend to make it less safe and to endanger women’s lives. I spoke with Jesanna Cooper, a friend and a doctor in Birmingham, who is an experienced Ob-Gyn. She told me, “The take-home is that without mifepristone, more people will hemorrhage and/or get septic from incomplete expulsion of the products of conception.” Using Misoprostol, the other drug used in a medication abortion procedure, alone is “less effective,” she says. It involves the “same amount of pain but [is] more likely to be incomplete, which can be dangerous.” It doesn’t sound very pro-life.

More information about the two drugs, if you want to read some of the science, is here.

In 1996 then-Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) tried to convince the House to take the Comstock Act off the books. They didn’t. But her floor speech has resonance today. She explained that the Act was named for a man named Anthony Comstock, who “was one of these people who decided only he knew what was virtuous and right, and somehow he managed to convince all sorts of people that this was correct.” That sounds familiar.

She continued, “Anthony Comstock was a religious fanatic who spent his life in a personal crusade for moral purity—as defined, of course, by himself. This crusade resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a multitude of Americans whose only crime was to exercise their constitutional right of free speech in ways that offended Anthony Comstock. Women seemed to particularly offend Anthony Comstock, most particularly women who believed in the right to plan their families through the use of contraceptives, or in the right of women to engage in discussions and debate about matters involving sexuality, including contraception and abortion.” We don’t need a new Anthony Comstock, and we don’t need Judge Kacsmaryk to dictate health care—or the absence of it—to people across the country.

You know what the solution is: go vote. Democrats will need sufficient majorities in both houses of Congress to restore protections for abortion. It’s not enough to win the House or the Senate; Democrats must take both to ensure access to abortion, and 2024 is not that far off.

We’re in this together,

Joyce

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