Austin

Texas State Capitol

Once upon a time the Texas State Capitol building burnt, and the Texans erected their new dome six feet higher than the country's Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

"Passage" at the Blanton Art Muesuem

Butterflies, made from recycled aluminum cans, are transporting and escorting a plane skeleton.

Blanton Art Museum Piece

"Seepage" by El Anatsui at Blanton Art Museum

"Anatsui celebrates the beauty and possibility found in every day materials. After flattening the aluminum wrappers from local Nigerian-brand liquor bottles and folding their edges, the artist and his team of assistants use copper wire to tie the small strips of metal together. ... The work references the historical importance of alcohol in Africa, where it was an imported product exchanged by colonial traders for ivory, gold, and slaves."

Oak Trees at University of Texas

N. G. interrupted from his fried chicken and mashed potatoes sausage. (Yes, really.)

H.G. and me at Bangers (sausage and beer)

George Washington Carver Museum

Lonnie Johnson was a space engineer and all-around brain who became most famous for inventimg the Super Soak water gun.

Art-o-Mat at the Whole Foods Headquarters

A vintage cigarette vending machine has been re-purposed to dispense local art pieces.

H.G. looking chic at Anthropologie

My fabulous, amazing, spectacular find at Buffalo Exchange

Trader Joe's opened in Austin!

H.G. and I overlooking the Colorado River from Mt. Bonnell

Dusk in Austin

The blur over the trees on the right is a swarm the famed bats which emerge nightly from under the Congress Avenue Bridge.