View Encroachment

One of the the iconic buildings we can see from our balcony is the Frost Bank Tower. But this new building on Fourth Street promises to usurp our view of it.

Famous Austinites

Actor Zach Scott came from Austin. He is buried along with his parents and a sister at Austin Memorial Park cemetery.

New Way to Recycle the Topo Chico bottles

These folks decided to bury their Topo Chico empties to make a border from some mulch and new plants.

Humor on the Old Marquee

This building is a business now, I think. It was once a theater. So they used the marquee for a joke.

Entering a Kitschy Neighborhood

This mosaic sculpture greets one at Live Oak and Congress to give you an idea what to expect in this eclectic South Austin neighborhood.

Outdoor recreation

This house in South Austin has a treehouse, a climbing net to get to it and a nice basketball goal. Entertainment for the young folk in the time of COVID-19.

Sidewalk Art Gallery

In South Austin someone has used the area near a sidewalk for a found object art display.

Colorful and Patriotic

This yard in South Austin has the floral display (azaleas in a pot? azaleas don't do well in our soil) and the flag.

Masks for All

Even the yard art is getting into the act.

Gingerbread?

This house in South Austin looks like something out of a fairy tale.

Protection

We walked by this little one's yard twice the other day. The second time he didn't bark until we stopped and reached toward him. Maybe he was actually looking forward to our return.

Leftovers in a pan

Hey -- when you have a lot of leftover fries and some shredded pork, just put some onions and garlic and pan and fry it all up to make hash browns with meat. How about that idea?

Mobile grooming

Great idea in this pandemic time. We don't have doggies any longer, but I might use these folks if we did.

Nice sentiment

We saw this sign on a church wall the other day.

Good advice

I have to remind myself to do a lot of this activity these days.

Voting the blues!

Here is a nice way of getting some attention. I wonder how much trouble it was to paint that flamingo?

My sentiments exactly

Amen to that! I feel that way a lot.

Who is that masked woman?

Why, that's my best friend and partner in life. We're glad to still be bringing you daily photos.

Another mural

We saw this mural at a South Austin church the other day. Lots of bright colors.

Masked Walker

When possible we've been walking outside in quiet neighborhoods with masks on and far from others. Here FFP pauses near a beautiful Pride of Barbados.

Slowly

Whoever designed these signs needs a grammar lesson. But, this is Texas where we had a motto for the highways: "Drive Friendly." For the record, slow and friendly are adjectives and modify nouns! So, please drive slowly in a friendly manner or something. In any case, they are trying to eliminate some through traffic to give people a safer place to walk and such (as you see FFP doing) during the pandemic.

Flag Pole

This house has quite an impressive flag pole.

Protecting Their Turf

These South Austin dogs were barking at us, but they seem pretty friendly.

One Hopes So

It's hard to see it now.

Shrimp?

I think the common name of this plant is Shrimp plant. I think I can see why.

Modern Shape

This very modern duplex presents some interesting shapes.

Flamingo in the Desert

This xeriscape has one pink burst of color.

Watch out!

I don't know who Doug is, but I don't want to find out!

One fancy treehouse!

A lot more elaborate than the treehouses I played in -- but we had a lot of fun back in the day.

Cute bus

Someone spent some time painting this bus -- too bad they cannot use it right now, thanks to the virus shutting down our lives.

Neighborhood

It is Theme Day once again. (Click here to see what other City Blogs posted for the theme.) I thought that I would put up a photo of this house. It was the first one built in the central Austin neighborhood called Rosedale, the area where I grew up. My dad, two of his brothers and his father drew the plans for it and did the carpenter work. I'm proud of that.