Austin, Texas Daily Photo

 When we were at our friends' party Saturday night, I shot this photo from their balcony, looking back to the building where we live. It...

Sitting on the balcony and noticed a new (and very tall) crane up at the site of a building where a small hotel used to be.

Two cranes are up where there used to be a Hooter's Restaurant on Riverside at South First.

A rather large building is going up across from a club we belong to on Sixth Street (The Headliners). I think the Capitol Dome may disappe...

I believe this building at Trinity and Cesar Chavez which is getting way up there is going to be a Marriott property.

From our balcony you see a crane between us and the iconic Frost Bank Tower. There is also one on the right side of the picture between th...

This construction on Red River is getting started in earnest. I believe it will be an office building across from the Hotel Van Zandt.

Lots of construction going on down on South Congress.

Ten years ago today we started this blog with a picture of the Ballet Austin building which was under construction. That picture, looking...

This one is for the Hotel Zaza that will spring up in the new year or 2018 or whenever!

I love the compositions that cranes and tall buildings make here in the hood.

Another view of Austin's crane invasion. It's fun for us to watch the projects going up around our home. One of these cranes is fo...

The JW Marriott on Congress from the back side. They are putting the finishing touches on the top.

One day last month I shot this picture of the clouds and the construction and the JW Marriott on Congress from just north of it on Brazos.

There was a time when cranes sort of disappeared from the skyline. But things are actually going up again. Jackie shot this of cranes over...