Swede Hill Wildflower Garden

Globe

Or maybe it's just circles. What do you see?

Kruger's

Kruger's Jewelers is a mainstay of downtown Austin. It's been in its store at 8th and Congress since 1939 and is still going strong.

Leaning

One of the last remaining houses (not a house turned bar) on Rainey Street.

CD Jukebox

There are still some around if you know where to look. This one lurks in the dark of the second floor at Casino El Camino.

Owens Garage

Owens Garage was built by Murray Owens in 1926 in East Austin. Owens operated the garage until 1991. The building was redeveloped in 2013 into a creative space, but the designers kept its original sign. The day we walked by, the new owners were outside and they let us peek inside that orange door to check out a huge black-and-white photo of the garage taken in the 1930s, with cars lined up waiting for service from mechanics clean, white jumpsuits (bet they didn't stay white for long).

Four leaf clovers

Los Loney Harley

We went to see Los Lonely Boys last night at The Roost. We had parked behind the club, and as we were going in, we realized that the members of the band were hanging out in the alley. Apparently, someone else - a biker - must have seen them there too as he was parking his Harley, because when we came out, we noticed this cool little feature on his bike. The band had signed it!

Rocket ship

Heaven is a place on Earth

Barton Springs - east of the pool.

Angelina Eberly

The statue of Angelina Eberly on Congress Ave. From Wikipedia:

Angelina Belle Peyton Eberly (July 2, 1798 – August 15, 1860) was an innkeeper and a hero of Austin, Texas in the Texas Archive War.

In 1836 she met and married Captain Jacob Eberly, a widower. They lived briefly in Bastrop, Texas and moved to Austin in 1839, opening the Eberly House. ... Jacob Eberly died in 1841. ...

In December 1842, Sam Houston ordered the secret removal of the archives of the Republic to safekeeping in Washington-on-the-Brazos. Mrs. Eberly, realizing that the symbols of national government were being removed from the city, fired a six-pound cannon into the General Land Office Building, arousing the town to what they considered theft. The ensuing conflict became known as the Archive War, which was won by the Austinites, preserving Austin as capital of Texas and keeper of the archives.

A statue of Angelina Eberly, created by Pat Oliphant, stands near the place where Eberly helped preserve Austin as Texas' capital city.

Running man

Sculpture from the old Runtex. He's all fenced in now.

Hopefully whoever bought it intends to do something with it someday other than just leaving it at the back of a lonely lot.

Kinetic Sculpture

Kinetic Sculpture at the Mueller HEB. The top portion rotates in different directions with the wind. The sculptor, Jim Lapaso, has created several pieces throughout the city, and each one is mesmerizing to watch.

Free concert at the UT Tower

Spider

Congress Ave. guitar

Mosaic planter

Mueller tower

This is the air traffic control tower from the old Mueller Airport. When I first came to Austin, that was the commercial airport for the city, so I did many drop-offs and pick-ups at that airport. That was back when you could wait at the gate, too, so I remember seeing friends off as they disappeared down the gangway to board their plane, and then watching the plane as it took off. People can't have that experience anymore. It's kind of sad.  

Mueller closed in 1999, when Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) opened. Bergstrom used to be an air force base. The base was closed in 1993, and the property was redeveloped into the ABIA. The Mueller property was sold to a developer and is in the process of being developed into a residential community, but they kept the old control tower as an homage to the area's history.