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        This is the view from the Oasis Restaurant high above Lake Travis.  Amazing, isn't it.                 This is the view from the Oasis looking toward Comanche Trail.  This shot really gives you a good idea of how high above Lake Travis the restaurant ...

This is a pan of the field at the Lake Travis High School track 15 minutes before the 2008 Relay For Life of Lake Travis began.  The event was held April 11 & 12.  We don't have the final numbers yet, but it looks like we had move than 35 teams, probably 350-400 participants and we will probably end up with close to $40,000 ...

From the Lake Travis ISD weekly e-newsletter: "For the third year in a row, Lake Travis High School is listed as one of Newsweek's Top 1,300 schools in the country. This year, the campus jumped more than 200 spots to be listed at number 503 - its highest ranking yet. According to the magazine (The Top of the Class, newsweek.com, 2007), ...

Lake Travis is a wonderful place to own waterfront property, but people, especially those not in the central Texas area, usually grossly underestimate prices.  What I intend to do here is give readers the statistics over the last six months for single family homes and lots with Lake Travis water frontage. For a better idea of what you will ...

The date has been set for the kick-off meeting for the 2008 Relay For Life of Lake Travis.  It will be February 15 at Buster's BBQ, which is on RM 620 in Bee Cave, at 6:30PM. For the last 6 years I have been involved in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Lake Travis, chairing it three times.  Although not the event ...

        Does this image tell you something?  Perhaps not, but the next one will.               This is the water tower at the Lakeway Blvd. entrance to Lakeway.  It is painted to look like a giant golf ball on a blue tee.         Just to the ...

With more and more baby boomers starting to enter retirement, Austin is a great place for them to look for a retirement house.  More specifically, the hills from western Austin to Marble Falls as well as the entire Dripping Springs area are the places to buy.  Why?  First, we need to look at what a lot of the baby boomers, ...

The western Travis, northern Hays and southern Burnett Counties area is poised for some really significant growth.  A major medical facility (read hospital with a level 2 trauma center) is slated for Lakeway.  A hospital is going into the Marble Falls area.  Hospitals don't put major facilities in where they don't expect a ...

If you saw my post from a few days ago about fog following the Colorado River valley, you know that the for isn't generated just by the water of Lake Austin.  This shot shows the thin, soupy fog as it rolls over Mansfield Dam from Lake Travis.  It is too thick to see the dam, but you get the idea. This one shows the fog ...

I was driving around Apache Shores the other day marveling at the new homes going up in that neighborhood, which is where I live.  The transition from 5 years ago is amazing.  Take a look: These new homes sit overlooking Lake Apache, a little lake in Apache Shores. These two 3-story homes are on Brass Buttons.  Though ...