While sitting at my desk one day last week, I heard some live music. I peeked out my window and saw this Ring of Blue at the railing on the Texas Capitol grounds. The band was in the open area below the railing.
Ring of Blue
Ring of Blue
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Category Archives: Texas Capitol
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime
Looking out my cubicle window on a group having lunch on the north lawn of the Texas Capitol. That little hangie-downie thing in the middle of the photo is part of a small wind chime on the inside of the window.
Lunch on the Texas Capitol lawn
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime
Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
If you want a home close to the Texas Capitol building, here are a few possibilities.
The Texas Governor’s Mansion, across the street from the Texas Capitol on the south side.
Texas Governor’s Mansion
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And across the street from the Texas Capitol on the west side is the Westgate Tower condo building. Built in 1966, it was the first residential high-rise building in Austin. It was controversial then and still a little bit controversial today, as it’s been designated as an historic landmark.
Westgate Tower
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Across the street from the Capitol grounds on the north side is this small apartment building, right in the middle of the state office complex. It’s probably more affordable than the Westgate Tower condos, but that’s just a guess on my part.
Conveniently located
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If you want a home on the Texas Capitol grounds, you could live in a squirrel nest.
It’s all about location, location, location
This is the tree with the squirrel nest. Talk about a high-rise.
A squirrel’s eye view of the Texas Capitol
Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Here is the blonde squirrel on the Texas Capitol grounds. The other squirrels are brown or gray. I was lucky to have my camera on the day that Blondie was near the sidewalk.
Blondie!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
I wanted to take this photo early in the morning, before the sun’s glare washed out most of the color. Unfortunately, there was a heavy fog until the early afternoon. So here is the south view from the Texas Capitol, looking down Congress Avenue, in full sun.
To infinity and beyond!
Here is Lady Bird Lake on an early, cold January morning.
Dawn on Lady Bird Lake
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
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