In these two pictures, you can see some of the versatility of HDR photography during dusk and in the middle of the day. These were both taken around Austin. The second one was taken in a tiny town in front of an old firehouse just north of Lake Travis.

Here are a few cool pictures from around Austin. The waterslide is this little beach on Lake Travis where they have a tiny waterpark.

We went down to Lake Travis for Mother’s day and I grabbed a few pictures that I will sprinkle in throughout the week. Here are the first few.

A cold front came through Austin and dropped a very muggy 92 degrees to very muggy 89 degrees. Here are some photos below that were impossible to take without sweating:

Here are some random flower pictures from around Austin…

There is a famous nursery here in Austin just south of the lake off 2244 that has hundreds of fake pink yard flamingos stuck into the ground out front. It’s really tacky but also really cool at the same time. There was also a cool old truck there so I jumped out to take these pictures:

Here are two more unrelated photographs, save their circular style.

I’ve been summoned to sit on a jury. I’ve just had to fill out this online form with all kinds of crazy information. I answered everything straight up, and my Libertarian nature made me take some of the questions a little less seriously — I don’t know why the government needs to know some of these things. Here were some of my answers:

What is the occupation of your kids? Crying and Pooping
What is your religion? Pastafarian
What are your hobbies? Why on earth do you want to know this? Just google me.

On that last one, they will find this blog, find out how opinionated I am and judgmental and maybe they will say I don’t have to serve on the jury. I should have put my hobbies are: “making fun of trail lawyers and forming vigilante groups to hunt down child molesters”.

Here are three photos that have been bumbling around the queue for a bit. They have nothing to do with one another, except that they a) they all happen to involve Austin and b) they do not involve immigrants.

As with most of the photos, these all look better if you zoom in and click “All Sizes” to see the larger version (as long as you are not running Prodigy in a 640×480 window).

Here is a picture out of the front driveway after a big storm we had a few days ago. Central Austin was without power for four days, but luckily I had power so I could do a lot of unnecessary things like blogging, which is relatively tough to do without electricity.