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.
A trip to East Texas (April 2007)One of things I really miss here are "real" trees, i.e. stuff with a single trunk and 50+ ft high, i.e. things that might for example form a forest or grow along a road and provide some shade. These things do indeed grow in Texas (contrary to public opinion), but not in Austin and not in College Station. There's a patch around Bastrop through which I drove twice a week for a year and a half, and there's a whole lot in East Texas, starting some thirty or so miles east of here. Thing is, I've never really taken the time to go there. My chance to go see some came when Rainer who I've been friends with since 1993 came over from Germany to become our first visitor. So we drove over to Huntsville State Park, about an hour east of here and walked around among some real trees and around a lake also very much unlike what people think Texas looks like. Let's start with some real trees:
And here some more, around a bit of flatlands close to the lake that gets flooded after each good rain. The guy on the right is Rainer:
More of the lovely forest through which one hikes around the lake:
Last impressions with crane standing in the water, and two mathematicians in the woods:
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