A friend (Angelique Naylor) shot this from a kayak on Lady Bird Lake. Captures a lot of the buildings and the reflection of some of their colorful tops. Our building (the 360 Condos) is left of center with the spire to the left. The very tall one left of that is the Independent and the very tall one nearer and on the right is the Austonian.

Hi There

Our upstairs neighbors have a little cat that I noticed while spending some time on my own balcony which I do quite a bit these days since there is no place to go out.

Sara's work in the paper

Sara Hickman, a friend of ours, did this chalk mandala for us on the top of the parking garage across the street. I took photos of her work and the local newspaper ran three of them with captions. What fun!

Shopping!

This is the extent of our shopping these days -- deliveries at our door. I hope this horrible time in our lives is over soon. It's theme day at City Daily Photo. What an ironic theme for us. Click here to see what others around the world did for theme day.

Messy, messy, messy

Our building is being repainted at great expense to all of us. Here you see the results. We are not happy. We are hoping that they will clean up these drips.

That's our house!

Hard to believe we have been down here for over 11 years now. The tallest building is where we live.

From a Certain Angle...

Walking across the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge, there is a certain spot where our building still looms up (beyond the salvia). Many of the buildings in this picture have arrived since we moved here.

Reflection of Our Home

Before we moved downtown there was a low-slung and quite ugly music venue (which also had terrible seating, bathrooms, and acoustics) across the street. They tore it down (scraped the lot) and built a low-slung, not quite as ugly (but close) music venue with terrible seating, bathrooms, and acoustics that was finished shortly before we got here. Because some better music venues came online it was used for disruptive concerts where drug use was prevalent and the attendees often left the neighborhood a mess. It was torn down and a large office building was built which is about to open. Our building is reflected in its facade in this picture.

Old and New

The Hoffbrau Steaks on West Sixth is towered over by our building and The Independent (the top of which didn't even make my picture). Other newish buildings are also visible. This restaurant has been around since 1934!

Never a dull moment

We had a fire in our building, on our floor no less. Our unit was not damaged, but many were. Life goes on, here in the big city.

Guiding Light on the 360

 

Our building (the 360 Condominiums) have bulbs on the residential floor hallway caps that are occasionally replaced with colored ones. I shot this around Christmas (hence red and green). On the left is the new building called Third+Shoal which is almost ready for occupancy. It will house a bunch of Facebook employees and a new coffee shop and a new restaurant.

Grackle Visit

While the grackles often decide our neighborhood is a great place to roost they don't usually perch on our building, preferring the trees below or the parking garage across the way. But one day at sunrise they were all over our balcony and others on our side of the building.

There we are!

We have been living down here for ten years and it's still hard to believe that the building you see to the right center here is our home. It's the one with the needle on top. The building to the right of ours is the tallest residential-only building west of the Mississippi.

Review this view

This is the view from the end of our hall now. This building will soon house a lot of Facebook employees. It is just across the street from us and well, so much for our view from that end of the building!

Greetings to the new year!

We took this shot from an angle that shows our home (to the right with a needle sticking up) and some of the rest of the downtown skyline when we were at the Headliners Club the other day for the annual holiday luncheon party. Let's hope for a great year in 2019!

Lobby lights

Here is some of the decoration in our lobby at the condo tower.

Selfie in the lobby

OK, I couldn't resist putting another one of these up. I love to shoot photos of myself in the elevator lobby with the mirror to use.

Me, reflecting

Here is a shot I took of myself in the elevator lobby the other day while I was waiting to go downstairs. We have been here almost ten years now.