mosaic

*Tessera- noun.  A piece put into a mosaic.  Plural- tesserae. Yes, friends, there are these lovely little pieces of colored chocolate candy that look JUST LIKE ROCKS!  Of course, I use them for mosaic. This was our Christmas cake, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas

Longhorn 11 1/2″ x 16″ Longhorn cattle are popular in these parts.  One of them is the mascot of the enormous university in my town, but besides that, they have a long history in Texas. One of my neighbors, H.W. Brands, is a history scholar and prolific author, and

Tex-mex Plate #5 by Lynn Bridge If I want to eat corn tortillas with butter on them until I feel sick, I go to Matt’s El Rancho in the neighborhood.  When I was a child, it was a small restaurant on East 1st Street in Austin, but the Martinez family eventually opened a much

Tex-mex Plate #4 by Lynn Bridge, with ceramics by Roberta Mitchell To continue with passages from The Tex-Mex Cookbook: a History in Recipes and Photos, I give you a quote from Robb Walsh’s chapter entitled”The Myth of Authenticity”: In the early 1900s,

Tex-mex #3 by Lynn Bridge Back to the Tex-mex theme again- a connoisseur of Tex-mex cuisine has ordered three plates from my studio.  Not one is edible, but they all look as if they should be.  I feature one of them today, along with a quote from The Tex-Mex Cookbook by Robb

You Are My Sunshine When art goes out into the world, it is up for interpretation by whomever sees it.  The interpretation may or may not be anything like what the artist intended, but it bonds to the art as if it were glued. Following is a happy example of how art can become

Mel Who is the subject of this glass portrait? We don’t know.  Which is the point.  This person is often overlooked. Man or woman?  Manual laborer, intellectual, musician?  Not sure. How often do we overlook people right in our path?  A larger question is ‘How often

Tex-Mex mosaic by Lynn Bridge I grew up eating Tex-Mex cuisine.  At the time, ‘cuisine’ was considered too fancy a word for what was served up in Texas restaurants with woven sarapes and over-sized sombreros hanging on the plaster walls, but now scholars of cooking

Now here’s a Christmas message for you, straight from the mouth of the prophet Isaiah, who lived… oh… say, 2800 years ago.  Isaiah said, Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth

Last night, my husband and I heard a performance of our favorite professional choir, Conspirare, in Austin, Texas. The director, Craig Hella Johnson, about whom I’ve written previously, imaginatively combines songs of the Christmas season with folk songs, rock songs, and