So, the neighborhood has turned the backyard of the Hezikiah Haskell House into a community garden. Pretty cool.
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Haskell House – History
I woke up this morning and started reading an interesting story about Austin, “Austin’s history of discrimination threatens its future”. It got me to thinking about the gentrification that is happening all around us. It led me to visit a few historic sites in the Clarksville District of Austin. My first stop this morning was the Hezikiah Haskell House. If you have the time, and are interested, read a little about the history.
Old Spicewood Road Sunset
I took a shortcut through the Texas Hill Country via Old Spicewood Road to get to my next destination. The sunset was too beautiful to capture on film, but this gives you an idea of what part of my drive looked like.
Courthouse Sunset
There is one major requirement for a lovely sunset – sun! After about 360 days of cold, cloudy, overcast, rainy weather in the Austin area (it seemed like that long, but I lost count), the sun finally returned to warm us up. We all thought we had moved to Seattle. Hooray sun!!! Please come back tomorrow. 🙂
White
You know, just another morning in the neighborhood. Wake up, snooze the alarm, wake up again, shower, get dressed, head out the front door, and wham! Fluffy white bunny and fluorescent white moon. Hello world!
La Belle
Here are some scenes from the La Belle Exhibit at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. The La Belle is a shipwreck found in 1995 just off of the Texas coast. If you get a chance, check out this very informative and interesting exhibit which includes many items found on the ship.
Bullock Texas State History Museum
It turns out that the first Sunday of each month is free admission day at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. I’ve been wanting to go and see the exhibit for the La Belle. It is a shipwreck that was discovered in Matagorda Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. From the website, “Setting sail from King Louis XIV’s France in 1684, La Salle intended to land at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Instead, he sailed into Matagorda Bay. By 1686, bad weather and human incompetence had left the expedition’s one remaining ship, La Belle, listing and abandoned in the bay’s shallow waters. It eventually sank into the mud and took all of its stories with it. Until 1995.”
New Year’s Eve
A few scenes from Sixth Street from early evening on New Year’s Eve…
Mexic-Arte Museum
If you live in America, you have been cheated out of fun all this time. You have been playing boring Bingo with combinations of letters and numbers like “B-12”. All along, Mexico has had a cooler version called Lotería with awesome picture cards like La Muerte (“Death”) and La Sirena (“The Mermaid”). I learned more about this today at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, and took some photos to help enlighten the rest of the planet. Now you can jettison your Bingo cards and pick up Lotería cards to replace them. You can thank me later with a small portion of your winnings. ¡Buena suerte! 🙂
Lights
Lights on the side of a restaurant looking nice at nighttime.
night·time
ˈnītˌtīm/
noun
the time between evening and morning;
the time of darkness.
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