There is beauty all around as you stroll through the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin, Texas. These were blooming in early November!
Standing cypress, Standing-cypress, Texas plume, Ipomopsis rubra
Texas roadside near Austin
The place the financial scandal of the century all took place.
The country city from the outskirts.
Originally the home of Texas BBQ stalwart Kreuz Market, Smitty's has called this dark, soot-stained building home since 1999.
Word is they used to chain the knives to the table back in the cotton farmer days, both to prevent theft and knife-fights. Now they just give you plastic as your lone utensil.
The corrugated tin and wire mesh door let you know that the Taylor Cafe is first and foremost a Texas honkytonk that also serves some of the best BBQ in the state.
Octogenarian owner and pit boss Vencil Mares opened the Cafe in 1948 right alongside the railroad tracks and still shows up for work daily, smoking and serving the traditional Texas fare of brisket, sausage (beef and turkey), chicken and limited sides.
Phase of the Moon on 9 September, 2006: waning gibbous with 94% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
I took this image on a visit to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. The element on the right is one of 100 aluminum works designed by Donald Judd and displayed in two former artillery sheds.
Well-known tattoo parlor on Congress Avenue right in the heart of Austin.
This is the Broadmoor Hotel complex as seen from nearby Stratton Open Space.