Some photos
When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...
Clicking on an image will produce a larger version. To see earlier or later pictures, use the menu bar at the right, which is sorted reverse chronological, i.e. newest sets of pictures at the top.
New house (March 2007)For the first year and a half here at A&M, Jill and I still lived in Austin and I had an appartment in College Station where I stayed from Monday night to Thursday morning. When Jill was offered an Instructor position in the math department in January (two weeks before the semester, i.e. with somewhat short notice :-) we had to find a new house to live in on equally short notice. That took a little stamina and was a bit of a frustrating process at times, but we both feel that in the end we found pretty much the best thing we could have wanted from a house. Here are the stats: it's fairly large for only two people (2300 sq.ft. or 225 square meters), on a reasonably big lot (approx. 0.4 acres or 1500 square meters), built in 1994, 15 minutes by car and 30 by bike from the university, and affordable. And, in my view, the best thing is that it backs against a protected greenbelt with a forest, so we don't need a backyard fence and nobody will ever build there. How much better does it get? Here are some pictures. Let's start with the outside, front and back:
Then here's kitchen (the counter tops have in the meantime been replaced by granite) and our dining area:
Here's our living room with my lovely wife:
And finally, here's the backyard, both from the patio as well as from the place where I sit in my office looking out of the window:
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