Somewhere on the yellow brick road
A secret doorway?
Growing pains
Something from Dr Frankenstein’s lab? Abby Normal, maybe.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
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Category Archives: Trees
Early Spring
It’s been a warm winter overall in central Texas and now we have an early spring. The Mexican Redbuds are blooming. The danger is, of course, the possibility of a hard freeze in the next couple of weeks. Hope the trees know what they are doing!
Bloom at every opportunity!
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
Beautiful and Old
Beautiful and old
At the Old Stagecoach Park in Buda, Texas.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons
Just a few brown leaves left
We have mostly two seasons in central Texas: a long, hot summer and then some winter. There are a few nice days in the autumn and spring thrown in, but usually we are at work inside an office building when that happens so we miss most of those two seasons.
The leaves don’t change colors gradually, they mostly turn brown all of a sudden and with one big twist and shake, they drop, much like the Whomping Willow in the Harry Potter stories.
We do have some true winter signs, like winter berries. (I don’t know the name of this bush.)
Winter berries, for the birds
A drastic change coming on
One of the hard-to-get-used-to things here is the change in temperatures. One day the low is in the 70s and the next day the low is in the 20s.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons
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