On October 10, some friends visited Mayfield Park to take some pictures of the pea chicks and their albino peahen mom. We first saw them here after they hatched at Westwood Country Club across the street. Unfortunately, only three of the chicks made the trek 'home' to the park. However, those in the know say this is the first brood in years to have any chicks survive the hawks.
Sometimes neighborhoods develop, over time, contrasting structures on adjacent lots. This cottage and its large infill neighbor are on on Monroe in South Austin. Somehow, it seems to work.
This is a detail of a wall on South Congress plastered with an ever-changing batch of posters for bands.
Yesterday there was a march of the undead on Congress Avenue. It is in association with a zombie film festival (Dismember the Alamo) that comes on the heels of the Austin Film Festival (Oct.29-31). Not that AFF didn't have some undead movies of its own!
A number of us were in line for yesterday for the Austin Film Festival when these protesters marched against capital punishment on Congress. The gentleman in the foreground was passing out stickers that said 'Democrat for Life.' Sounded a little ambiguous to us out of context but clear during the brief march. Good for these people for being against this punishment, but I hope they take their cause through the system to try to change our laws (in Texas it will probably have to be a Constitutional Amendment) instead of just doing an outcry against public officials administering our policy and juries and judges who impose the sentence.
