Around West Lake Hills Texas-Construction management met with a safety officer to discuss exterior renovations now underway at the Westbank Market Shopping Center. Westbank has 35 store fronts that will be transformed in phases. A glimpse of the plans suggest the updated store front architecture will be Modern Farmhouse. According to Google Gemini, the cost of such a project would be $15,000-$50,000 per storefront. The first phase targets the Eastside. This portion of We

Around Austin-Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026-Besides all the musicians and their performances, there were many famous or highly-valued guitars on display. Above vintage Fender Stratocasters including the SRV model. The John McLaughlin PRS. On the left, the guitar model that vaulted Paul Reed Smith (PRS) to enough funding to launch his company in 1985. On the right, the John Mayer PRS. Above, Gibson is famous for the "Les Paul" editions but also for the "Firebird" models sh

Around Austin-Crossroad's Guitar Festival 2026-Behind the scenes. Saturday evening September 26, 2026. See how the stage, audio and video are managed below. The stage rotates clockwise to allowing for quick transitions between artist presentations. Equipment being triaged for each group. Audio and Video acquistion and control.

Around the Austin Metro-Bastrop county is booming. The Boring Company out on 130 Walker Watson Road at TX 969, Bastrop, Texas 78602 is shown here in our reporting back on March 13, 2023. As reported by the "Austin Business Journal" Sept 18-24, 2026, The Boring Company has landed $3B in Series D funding. We show below a tunnel under TX 969 from the Boring Company to a SpaceX building accross the road. According to ABJ, Boring has a tunnel under SH 130 from the Tesla Giga p

Around Austin-"Private Companies in the Austin Area, Ranked by 2025 Revenue." Partial list excerpted from the "Austin Business Journal" September 11-17, 2026. Top 10: Arrive Logistics, $2.69B, 897 Austin Employees, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., $1.43B, 692, McCoy Corp. $1.2B, 739, Kestra Financial Inc. $1.2B, 358, Four Hands LLC, $718M, 761, Continental Automotive Group $718M, 969, CarbonBetter LLC $588M, 19, Cerris Builders $519M, 64, Austin Regional Clinic PA, $463M, 2,641,

Around Austin-Among the developments along RM2244 between St. Stephen's School Road and Weston Lane are new developments on the One World Site. Above to the right, signage regarding Westlake Fire Station 903 and to the left signage from Ballis Development. Also, see our earlier coverage regarding this location. https://www.rm2244.com/post/7703-rm-2244-new-site-for-fd-903

Around Austin-Places We Love-Culinary-Bulevar Mexican Kitchen. Thursday afternoon August 20th 2026. Image above ceiling lighting. According to Google AI these are "a cluster of sleek, mid-century modern Coltrane Pendant Lights by DelightFull..." Bulevar is located at 9400 Arboretum Boulevard, (512) 377-9877 https://www.bulevaratx.com See more images below. View from just left of the entrance 17:02 View of the kitchen and the opposite side of the three-sided bar. View just

Around Austin-A South Lamar Classic since 2005, "Southside Flying Pizza", 1224 South Lamar Boulevard. See https://southsideflyingpizza.com . Thursday August 13th 2026. The Ford F Series is likely a 7th generation 1980-1986. See a closeup below.

Around Austin-Burnet Road Neon, Wednesday August 5th 2026, 20:30. See more below. Upper Crust. Little Woodrow's. Atown. Citizen All Day. Toy Joy.

Around Austin-Cote Legal 808 West 11th is in the Austin Historic District, an area that features structures classified as Folk Victorian, Queen Anne, Italianate and Romanesque. This structure is a "Folk Victorian," or "Victorian Farmhouse" or "Vernacular Farmhouse" (SourcerGoogle AI). For details see https://www.cplegal.com

Around Austin-South Lamar between Barton Springs Road and Lamar Square Drive images and views. Saturday July 25th 2026. Above a billboard on the east side of South Lamar. See more below. A billboard on the west side of South Lamar. Businesses too, AAMCO and SHAKESHACK. uchi on the east side. Rising Sun Japanese Automotive on the east side. Downtown skyline view from the west side of South Lamar. Downtown skyline view from the west side of South Lamar. "ART FROM THE STREET

Around Austin-MadHippie-700 South Lamar Boulevard. Saturday July 25th 2026. "WELCOME Y'ALL." See https://www.madhippie.com for details. According to the website "Our Skincare Philosophy More & Less we develop with more actives and better ingredients. Free of bad actors like petroleum, parabens, phthalates, perfumes, dyes, SLS & PEGs." More images below.

Around Austin-Cosmic Pickle 121 Pickle Road, Suite 111 is a popular gathering spot featuring indoor and outdoor spaces along with coffee, cocktails and food. What they say at https://www.cosmichospitalitygroup.com is "Cosmic Pickle blends our love of nature, thoughful design, and really good drinks into a space that works just as well for a midday reset as it does for a night out." Above we found an orange tabby cat relaxing in the morning. Saturday July 11th 2026, 10:11.

Around Austin-Quince Lakehouse "Waterside spot with views of Lake Austin featuring a menu of global small plates and a bar." Quince Lakehouse, 3825 Lake Austin Boulevard #201, 512-334-9426. https://www.quincesma.com

Around Austin-Top 25 Austin Employers. Top 25 list selected from the "Austin Business Journal" July 3-9, 2026 pp18-91 "Austin-Area Largest Employers, RANKED BY LOCAL EMPLOYEES." See ABJ for the full list of 50 and much detail. Image from RM2244.COM archive "Blues on the Green" June 10th 2026. The Top 25 are; HEB 27,721 employees, Tesla 16,500, Ascension Texas 16,200, St. David's Healthcare 13,259, Amazon 11,000, Apple 10,000, Dell 7,348, IBM 6,000, Baylor Scott & While Hea

Around West Lake Hills Texas-July 4th Celebration & Parade-amy's ice creams free "COME AND SCOOP IT" was greatly appreciated. Below Texas Honey Ham served up free breakfast tacos in a big way. Chick-fil-A poured free drinks and had a spin contest for coupons. Texas Honey Ham fed all comers! Chick-fil-A poured free drinks and had a spin contest for coupons.

Around Austin-Morning drive from West to East Austin and back. Above along I-35 a glimpse of "I was born here, I was grown here" by Rex Hamilton. See the full 60 foot mural at https://www.rexsterlinghamiltonart.com More images below. Walking by "Industry Everyday Late Night" on East 6th. See https://www.eastside.industrytx.com "Floral Mural" by Helena on Navasota between East 5th and East 6th. See https://www.helenamartinart.com for details about Helena. On Navasota. Eas

Around Austin-Downtown skyline views from the "Skyline Overlook." The overlook provides a view from East Austin of the prominent downtown skyline. Middle is the Waterline Tower, the tallest in Texas at 1025 feet and to the right the Indeed Building. The Frost Bank tower is just right of the utility tower. Image Monday morning June 29th 2026. Close up view. View of the Oracle Building.

Around Québec City-The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, Saturday June 13th 2026. View of the rear of hotel looking west along the Dufferin Terrrace. Located within the walls of Old Québec, the iconic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac "is a historic hotel...considered the most photographed hotel in the world." (Wikipedia.org). For details regarding this location see https://www.chateau-frontenac.com More images below. Rear of the hotel looking east. Western side view. View looki

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