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Just two pictures today as I had more issues. I’ll be addressing those soon!
So, from a year ago::
I was in Austin for a family wedding and it was nice seeing a city that was a big part of my childhood, with family memories and events being brought up, all-grown-up (me and Austin!). Some places were plain gone, many others still weird and wonderful. Seeing things like glass-ball Halloween ornaments on cactus tips that intruded into narrow public sidewalks made me miss the nutty artistic hippy THING that is Austin.
At the reception, I saw my first gathering of my aunt and her girlfriends who used to babysit me in the mid-late 1970’s since I moved away in 1979. It wasn’t as big a deal for them, since they get together often, but it was amazing seeing the same neat, quirky, passionate, intelligent women after all these years and all their adventures. They are all so different yet so the same. It was like a brief homecoming to a part of my childhood.
As a child, I often recreated near this pink granite edifice in the mid-late 1970’s. It’s truly a different world, then and now.
I appreciate metal work as do I stone and landscape. I found this fence surrounding the Texas Capitol to be impressive.
Today, pictures from valued commenter Redshift.
On our trip to Europe this summer, Ms. Redshift and I went to Kiev to see the girls from Belarus and Ukraine we hosted in a summer children’s program 8-12 years ago. While there, we toured Kiev, and spent quite a bit of time in the Maidan, site of the mass protests that toppled the Russian-backed government of Ukraine. It was powerful, and very moving to be there. It really makes you think about what you’d be willing to risk, what you’d be willing to do.
Panorama of the entire square
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev, Ukraine
360 Panorama of the entire Maidan
Thank you so much Redshift, do send us more when you can.
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curmudgeon52
Just gave defensive instructions to my daughter in Gangnam – water, pillow, blanket, cash and instructions to head to the subway station near her building if Trump decides to blow up North Korea. He is so stupid, who knows what will happen.
I live outside Osan Air Base. Saw my first AWACS today (retired Army). Normal F-16, A-10 training flights. U-2 circled as I was walking home this afternoon from the park.
South Korea is a beautiful country and a lot richer and more developed from when I first served here back in the 1970s. Sane government here now, so I hope the US lets the Koreans work things out.
raven
No more Armadillo but I hear the Broken Spoke is still there.
angrystan
@raven: buried in empty, purchased condominiums, but as of June it was still there.
Mustang Bobby
Update on my trip to the Lakeland Auto Show and Lake Mirror Concours last weekend. We got about 70 miles on the road when I saw white smoke trailing from the Pontiac. We stopped in South Bay and discovered what looked like an oil leak: liquid streaming out from under the engine. A local mechanic took a look but couldn’t find the source. Rather than chance it, I called AAA and had the car taken home. My traveling companion and I got in his Honda Accord and we made it to Lakeland that evening and enjoyed the show on Saturday.
Yesterday I had the Pontiac towed to my mechanic, who will diagnose and repair it. He was at the show and suspects it was a leak in the transmission or oil cooler line.
So I didn’t get to have my car in the show, but I did pick up my display sign, and in my usual good humor, took a picture of where I would have parked.
JPL
@curmudgeon52: No problems.. Only HE can fix it.
rikyrah
Teasing us today… Redshift, send more!!
raven
@angrystan: Like the Station Inn in Nashville.
Davebo
@raven: Armadillo is an office building now. But there’s still Threadgills and the Continental Club.
Austin is almost unrecognizable now compared to the 70’s but still, Barton Springs will never go away! Buying a reasonably priced home north of Oltorf however is a pipe dream now.
Davebo
At least then Driskoll hotel is still haunted!
raven
@Davebo: And no Goat Roper Radio!!!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Moore claims the SCOTUS ruling for gay marriage was worse than Dread Scott. I would have thought Moore for Dread Scott, or is Moore is one of those who thought Tanny was being far to permissive in his ruling to the blacks?
Nicole
Oh my goodness, the photos of the State Capitol building in Austin takes me back. In my mid-20s, I was on a children’s theater tour and we played a few shows in Austin. I was lucky enough to have a roommate who liked to sightsee as much as I did, so on every afternoon off we’d go see something. I remember us going into that building, up the rotunda, and her taking careful, quick peeks over the edge of the railing because she wanted to look down, but she was also absolutely terrified of heights.
I loved Austin; really fun city to visit. Thanks for bringing the memories back to me!
MomSense
I enjoyed visiting Austin some years ago. Such a fun city. Alain, I share your love of iron work. I read an article a few years ago about Bob Dylan’s amazing gates. He is an iron welder and makes gorgeous sculpture out of scrap. If you get the chance, reading about his process and work is a nice diversion.
Would looove to go to Kiev. That panoramic photo of Maidan is super cool.
J R in WV
Anyone else notice the guy in the far right corner who’s left leg vanishes into panorama magic-land ?
He’s taking a step without a leg to stand on!!
Funny, but very nice picture. Camera artifacts tickle me no end!