Hanging on the Highway

This Blue Lapis Light Dancer performs on a column supporting IH35. This was part of the boardwalk grand opening celebration. You can see the Monarch, 360, AMLI on Second, the W and the Ashton in the background.

Good Morning

We stumbled up early enough to enjoy and take a picture of the sunrise. Worth getting out of bed. Like every moment in life, these moments of morning colors are fleeting.

A Different View...Soon to be Lost

I shot this from Brazos street with the construction for the Marriott Hotel in the foreground. When it rises this particular perspective with be obliterated. From left to right: 100 Congress, the Ashton, the Austonian, the W Hotel and Residences and looking small because it's furthest away (it's really taller than any but the Austonian) is the 360 Condominiums (our home).

Cloud Gate

Yesterday I noticed how the clouds seemed all of a piece with the W Hotel and Residences.

Weirdly Beautiful

Here's another picture from the Keep Austin Weird Festival. These women look pretty striking (and attractive) in their costumes. That's our building emerging from the cape and the W Hotel on the right.

Sunset Light

We were walking across the pedestrian bridge at Mopac the other day as the sun sank low. It made a particularly interesting reflection on, from left to right, Frost Bank, Spring, the 360, the W and the Austonian. No enhancements, just a cropped point and shoot photo.

Good Morning, Austin

It's a chilly one (for us) this morning (a bit less than freezing outside). Dawn ripped color through the mackerel sky a few minutes ago.

It Actually Rained

Overnight we had some rain as the wet pavement on the parking garage attests. FFP took this picture while there were still some clouds at dawn.

Elegant Reflections

At the Ballet Austin event on Friday celebrants enjoyed a somewhat cool evening on the terrace of the W hotel. Notice the balcony panels that once were glass. Will be interesting to see when those are replaced. (See this entry.)

Texas Musician's Cow

The cow at the W Hotel is festooned like the Texas flag and has images of Texas musicians. Visible here? Billy Gibbons? Buddy Holly? Stevie Ray Vaughn? This one is on the W Hotel block near 2nd and Lavaca.

Could it Be a Postcard?

City Daily Photo has a theme day on the first of each month. This time it's "postcard-worthy." We don't usually think of our pix as postcards but this one, with some of the skyline, Lady Bird Lake and some water recreation is a recent shot from Lou Neff Point that we thought we'd use for this.

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Modern Hotel Decoration

The W Hotel in our neighborhood has a rather mixed-up modern eclectic aesthetic (if that makes sense). This old typewriter sits on a mirrored table near the concierge desk. In unrelated news, ome glass panels fell off the residence balconies yesterday, apparently while we lunched there. No people were hurt, but some cars were damaged. Someone had typed an appeal to God on that paper, by the way.

South From the W Residences

This is the view south from the W Residences. City Hall in foreground, South First (Drake) Bridge stretching across Lady Bird Lake, Auditorium Shores and Long Center in right corner.

Another Man's View

We went to a party at the W Residences. Here's Forrest with the master bedroom view behind him.

Catch a Sunset

This pair was catching a sunset one night near the W Hotel pool.

Fly Your Lone Star

The other day someone was flying the Texas Flag on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge. Took this with my iPhone. Flag obscures the Austonian, W Hotel under it, 360 to the left.

Mighty Cloud

At sunset on Tuesday a mighty cloud in the east reflected the setting sun in the west. This same cloud formation (which showed a little lightning but brought no rain) appeared so strange from the vantage point of San Marcos to our south that someone made the cloud a facebook page.

Grand Staircase

Jackie shot this picture of the staircase entrance to the Austin City Limits venue. You can see the W logo and the AMLI apartments across the street. If you live in the area, come down to Second Street today starting at 3PM for a free celebration of our new neighbor.

Still Selling

The W Hotel is open and their old condo sales office that sat on the corner of their lot is long gone. But they have moved their little model building to a store front space vacated by a high concept design store that didn't make it. It is across Guadalupe Street from the back of the building. So if you are in the market for a condo in downtown Austin, stop by.

Hot Red Room, Cool Feel

Linda and I had our second run at a new restaurants in the neighborhood last night and decided to have a nightcap at one of the bars in the W Hotel. (Also new and two blocks from our home.) Of the warren of bars they offer, we decided to perch in this one which features red decor to the max, plush lounging and what I call techno-pop music. I'm sure I'm wrong in this characterization of the music, but I'm way too old to know this stuff nor do I care to learn the correct terminology. Here is a photo I took with my iPhone of two young people at the bar. Tres trendy. Very much a New York feel.