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One of the things I really wanted to show Sam when I took her to Austin for the 4th of July was the bats.  Austin has the largest urban population of Mexican free-tailed bats in the world; the boat tour guide said there were 800,000 bats this year!  They live under the Congress Avenue bridge [...]

When my friend Sam and I were in Austin, she wanted to go on a bat boat tour on the lake. We got there early to make sure to get a good seat and had some time to kill, so we wandered around on the hike and bike trail. It’s a nice trail right by [...]

The State Capitol Building in Austin is an impressive building made of pink granite from the Texas Hill Country.  I took Sam there to wander around at sunset one of the nights we were in town for the 4th of July.

A friend of mine, Sam, was in Houston from Canada for work right before the 4th of July. I took her with me when I headed to Austin for the holiday weekend. One of our stops was The Oasis, a restaurant built into the side of the limestone cliffs overlooking Lake Travis.  Sam, Sara, and [...]

When I went to Austin for the 4th of July, we stopped in at County Line BBQ on Lake Austin.  It’s fantastic BBQ and has a deck out on the lake where you can feed the turtles!  Below are a few that were especially friendly.  They were adorable!

While I was in Austin, I took portraits of Terri and her daughter, Brittany.  It was cold but pretty out so we headed to a park near their house for some outdoor pictures before going home to take pictures with their dogs in front of the Christmas tree.  It’s always fun taking pictures with them [...]

One of the nice things about being back in Austin over Christmas was getting to see people I’ve been friends with for a long time but don’t get to see often.  A few of them even let me take pictures of them. My friend Erin, who now lives in Oahu

We took a stroll by Town Lake with Sara when Em and I were in Austin and stopped for a few pictures.

I made a seven-picture panorama of the downtown Austin skyline at dusk, and I can’t decide if I like it better in color or black and white.  I also got a decent shot of the moon.

We went to McKinney Falls State Park south of Austin a couple of weeks ago and hiked around in the gorgeous spring weather. Upper McKinney Falls