Through The Looking Glass

A photoblog by Sean Loyless, a part of the Daily Haggis network.

The Tree That Ike Fell

During Hurricane Ike, I pleaded with my mom to leave her house and go to a friends’. She eventually complied, and when she came home the next morning she found this giant tree on top of her house. FEMA luckily came through and she ended up with a much nicer place.

The Tree That Ike Fell

Felled Tree

This is the start of the tree that fell through my mom’s house.

Felled Tree

Mr. Gone and Maxx

Closer picture of The Maxx Wall. You can start to see some of the seams of each of the pieces of paper used.

Mr. Gone and Maxx

The Maxx Wall

While I was living in Houston, I decided to turn a wall of my bedroom into the last two pages of Sam Keith’s "The Maxx" #1.

To do this, I scanned in the pages of the comic at very high DPI, then cropped out 8×10" pages and printed them out individually. I used Elmer’s Glue and pasted them one at a time to fill the entire wall.

The Maxx Wall

Bathtime for Puppeh

Taking Bee with me to Houston for Christmas and felt it was time for a bath. Stinky dog is stinky.

Bathtime for Puppeh

Fish Tacos at Wahoo's

Just as delicious as they look.

Fish Tacos at Wahoo’s

The motherload

The final culmination of me and my cousin’s day of sugary goodness. Cupcakes from Hey Cupcake!, Red Velvet and Carrot Cake Cake Jars, and tiny apples from Whole Foods.

The motherload

Cherry Watermelon Bubblegum Sno-cone from Kawaii Shaved Ice in Round Rock

Last Thursday I traveled to Round Rock/Austin to hang out with my Cousin for the day to celebrate completing a project for her class that we worked on together. We initially had plans to go out with her teammates, but they flaked. Instead we decided to spend the day doing something we both love: consuming sweets.

First stop was Kawaii Shaved Ice in downtown Round Rock, Texas. They offer about 80 different flavors of sno-cones (or shaved ice). I went for the super-sweet combination, while Candace went for Butterscotch Amaretto. This was the *small*.

The next stop was Wahoo’s Fish Taco’s for their signature dish and to pick up some Cake Jars. After that was to the cupcake truck parked on South Congress, Hey Cupcake! And finally to the downtown Whole Foods to pick up some fruits I’ve never even seen before.

To say it was a good day would be a huge understatement.

The Shadow Knows

Standing on my back porch I noticed how huge and looming my shadow was, so I grabbed the tripod and struck this menacing pose.

The Shadow Knows

Tree silhouette

Tree silhouette