capGood Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
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.