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View of the southwest corner of the capitol building. |
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Website: http://www.co.travis.tx.us/tnr/parks/hamilton_pool.asp <BR> From the site: "Hamilton Pool Preserve is a historic swimming hole which was designated a preserve by the Travis County Commissioner's Court in 1990. Located 3/4 mile upstream from its confluence with the Pedernales River, Hamilton Creek spills out over limestone outcroppings to create a 50 foot waterfall as it plunges into the head of a steep box canyon. The waterfall never completely dries up, but in dry times it does slow to a trickle. However, the pool's water level stays pretty constant, even during periods of drought." |
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My second Adickes panorama following http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=17261. "Statesmanship," is set along Interstate 45 in Houston, Texas just south of the 45-10 interchange. The 22 feoot high busts are of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. Find more information about their creator, David Adickes at http://www.samhoustonstatue.org/david-adickes.htm, directions to his open to the public studio at http://www.yelp.com/biz/david-adickes-sculpturworx-studio-houston and flickr fan group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/davidadickes/. |
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View from a balcony at Austin City Hall. The architectural detail overhead is called "The Stinger" by locals. A construction site across the street is the future home of Austin City Limits. |
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A view of Lake Austin from Mt. Bonnell. |
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Barton Springs Pool in Austin, TX. This pool is fed by Barton Spring, 4th largest spring in Texas. Its temperature is 68˚-71˚year round. |
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This mural tells the history of the Crestview and Brentwood neighborhoods in Austin Texas. |
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This GigaPan is a detail of the Taconic Angular Unconformity exposed near the east end of the roadcut illustrated in the GigaPan of the Lower Helderberg Group (). The Ordovician Austin Glen Formation (flysch, right) lies below the angular unconformity and the Silurian Rondout formation constitutes the relatively more resistant layers above the unconformity surface (left) (Marshak and Engelder, 1987). |
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The Cathedral of Junk is the brainchild of Austin visionary Vince Hannemann. He began assembling the interconnected mass in his backyard 1989 and it is now a 3 stories tall, multi-room, multi-level igloo. It contains more than 700 bikes, numerous shopping carts, hubcaps, golf clubs, skis, and even a kitchen sink! It is this kind of funky yard art that helps "Keep Austin Weird"! |
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Downtown Austin, looking east, at the site of the new home of Austin City Limits. City Hall is the dark building on the right. |