Ellie at Chronotopia has added a post on blogs in Spanish directed at Spanish teachers – one on literature, one on art, and one on movies. If you like to read in Spanish, this is the place to go.

Richie Escovedo’s got a good post regarding using images from Twitpic and other online sharing sources, both the good and the bad. Rob Angeles at How to Make Coffee’s got a really cool post on the Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony. Pete Wann is offering his photographs for sale at SmugMug.

Tha reminds me of my old friend Wendy Pandolfo. She’s a great freelance photog for journalistic purposes,  portraits and weddings.

And as long as we’re talking photos, we can’t forget David at Dallas Photoworks — thanks again for the masthead pic for this site. Last reported on a  road trip, passing through Las Vegas. Some people have all the fun.

We have been noted at www.eightoneseven.com — our first discussion in that forum was generated by TCU College Girl’s complaint about priority parking for hybrids at TCU — see the thread at eight one seven.

At West and Clear, Pete Wann takes down a hand-wringing piece at the Chicago Sun Times, reprinted at the Star-Telegram, which dares to declare “It’s not that easy being green.” Pete comes back strong and strikes a blog-blow for environmentalism when he says, “yes it is!”  And he tells you why.

Meanwhile Kevin at Fortworthology has an interesting post on the Heritage Park/Halperin archives, in which the landscape architect’s sketches are loaded online for you to see what he was thinking when he planned the site. This could be very relevant especially since the public workshop on repairing the site will be held this weekend, May 8th and 9th.Call the City if you want to attend.

If you’re interested in how Swine Flu shutdowns are happening in the region, check out the Extra Credit Blog where Eva-Marie has been hard at work, documenting cases and closings.

Austin at Fort Worth Real Estate scans a recent article which says, in effect, don’t expect your house values to come booming back tomorrow. And even though Fort Worth is less affected than most parts of the country, over the long run, we could lose housing value, especially in the remote suburbs.

Finally, Julie at Silversmyth is working on some new designs for Mother’s Day.