While the Sun Sets

Sunsets can be dramatic from our building but we usually capture them reflected in the tall buildings east of us because we have an east-facing unit. On the last day of June, however, the temperature was unusually pleasant and I took a camera to our building's west-facing pool deck. FFP read a book while I took shots and waited for the light to change. I like this picture of him.

Deep Eddy Mural Critters

A very elaborate mosaic mural is being completed at Deep Eddy Pool. This detail shows the critters!

Deep Eddy Pool

Snapped this after walking between it and Lady Bird Lake on the hike and bike trail.

Catch a Sunset

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

W Rising

The W Hotel actually rose to its full height long ago but a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving it is due to open to the public. They seem to be working on it day and night and Sundays. My friend Jackie shot this picture from her balcony in the AMLI on Second. This is the hotel pool, ready for guests with the addition of a few chaises. Yesterday it was 80 degrees so don't scoff at pool use in November. Could happen! Here are some construction pictures from this pool.

The W Has a Pool!

Our friend Jackie shot these pictures from her perch near the W Hotel and Condo construction as a swimming pool got installed. This is, Jackie believes, the hotel pool and there will be another pool on the east for the condo owners. Jackie on the construction: "They were sculpting the pool from gunite. According to the Internet, the term “gunite” is like “Kleenex” – 'originally a proprietary form of pneumatically projected (sprayed) concrete, it is now used generically. Useful for forming vertical and near-vertical surfaces and free form concrete structures without form-work. Allows concrete to be carved while wet.' It was amazing to see the pool taking shape."

Thanks as always to Jackie. It's great to have contributors with different perspectives!

Cooling Off

We found ourselves in an eighth floor corner suite at the Four Seasons Saturday and I snapped this picture with my zoom of people cooling off in the pool. I think they'd arranged themselves most artistically.

Some Lanes Closed Due to Cold

We've been having unusually cold weather for Austin. It was around twenty degrees Fahrenheit when I started playing tennis yesterday. Lanes of the (heated) pool had been opened for some stalwart swimmers, though, when I finished. It was probably above freezing then. Just. The rest of the pool was still covered to preserve heat...the other blue on the left.

This is an iPhone photo.

Looking Out Into Space!

Those are my shoes in the foreground. Just beyond is an area of the pool marked "four inches" and '"NO DIVING." Well, no. Those recliners are in the water. Across the pool are people enjoying the 360 Condo Grand Opening and beyond that a drop of nine stories to the ground. That's a bit of the Monarch apartments to the right and soon I think the Spring Condos will loom into view. (That project seems to be going at a snail's pace. But their marketing is good because people ask me if I'm moving there all the time.)