Communities in Texas

[JoninATX]

10,000 year clock being built in the mountains of west Texas

Something truly unusual but interesting as a group of people are building a clock several hundred feet into a mountain in west Texas

Here is what the clock will look like once finished


Progress


10,000 Year Clock » Swaggart Brothers

Click on the link to see more info and pictures.

[Plutonic Panda]

That's pretty far out! Love to see things like that.

[JoninATX]

Likewise. Although they are building one similar to this out in Nevada. Once this clock is finished I'll have to drive out there to see it.

[ljbab728]

I've got a watch so I'll pass. LOL

[Plutonic Panda]

I've got a watch so I'll pass. LOL

Are you telling me you're too lazy to drive for 10 hours to southwest Texas , 10 hours to drive back, stop by the store and pick up some milk and eggs, drop them by my house, and possibly mow and water my lawn just to check the time? Sheeeesh, some people

[ljbab728]

Are you telling me you're too lazy to drive for 10 hours to southwest Texas , 10 hours to drive back, stop by the store and pick up some milk and eggs, drop them by my house, and possibly mow and water my lawn just to check the time? Sheeeesh, some people

Call me lazy, I am what I am.

[JoninATX]

15 best spots on the Texas coast

Here are a few

Sea Rim State Park / Southeast Texas


Fish Pass at Mustang Island / South Central Texas


Boca Chica / South Texas


15 Best Spots on the Coast | Texas Monthly

[JoninATX]

Speaking of the Texas coast, Sea Rim State Park is back from the destruction of what Hurricane Ike did back in 2008.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1x9qauwKMxU

Although seaweed has been bad alone the upper Texas coast, but from what I've heard recently that most of the seaweed has diminished.

[JoninATX]

Vanderpool, Texas.


Sold Land near 200 acres in Bandera County at , 78885, Vanderpool, Texas

[JoninATX]

MARFA, TX: A WORLD OF ART WAY OUT WEST



Marfa, TX: A World of Art Way Out West - Travel Magazine

A great article on Marfa. All thanks to renowned artist Donald Judd, without him Marfa would most likely be a ghost town.

[JoninATX]

Speaking of Marfa I was pleasantly surprised for a town of 2,000 people, that they have not 1 but 2 upscale restaurants.

Cochineal



Maiya’s



A Major Mealtime in Marfa

I've gotta say Marfa is one unique town. Plus it even has it's own film festival.


Marfa Film Festival

This town is definitely something worth checking out.

[JoninATX]

Palo Duro Canyon State Park


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[JoninATX]

I'm like dammit Dale! Lol...

[Plutonic Panda]

SpaceX breaks ground on Texas rocket launch site | The Journal Record

[JoninATX]

Scenery in Texas

The Hill Country in Autumn

https://www.facebook.com/TexasHillCountry
Picture by John Kain

Snow in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41566708@N08/
By Thomas Carlile

[progressiveboy]

Looks like the next Texas city to grow and prosper is Frisco. It is a boomtown even by Texas standards!






Boom in Frisco is big even by Texas standards | Dallas Morning News

[Snowman]

Looks like the next Texas city to grow and prosper is Frisco. It is a boomtown even by Texas standards!

Boom in Frisco is big even by Texas standards | Dallas Morning News

They are kind of passing their capacity for grow though, as at around 3/4rds of their city limits are already built on and they are unlikely to transition to building any existing parts to more density.

[NWOKCGuy]

A friend of mine works for Tech and he said they just released their new campus master plan and any new construction on campus isn't going to be allowed surface parking. I know that's not really development news, I just thought it was interesting.

[JoninATX]

Davis Mountains


Thanks to 300zxtwinturbo
learning about texas hiking (San Antonio, Austin: house, scorpions, high school) - (TX) - City-Data Forum

[Plutonic Panda]

Check out what McAllen Texas did to their abandoned Walmart

What This City Did With An Abandoned Walmart Is Absolutely Brilliant. You'll Love It - Grow Food, Not Lawns

[JoninATX]

Something that most cities are abandoning. I'm so glad we have libraries.

[JoninATX]

Census estimates hint at mega-region between San Antonio and Austin

By Vianna Davila
March 26th. 2015

The population boom along the Interstate 35 corridor shows San Antonio and Austin could eventually grow together into a mega, metro region, the state demographer said after studying new census data.

Hays and Comal counties — both of which hug I-35 and are wedged between San Antonio and Austin — were the fifth and ninth fastest-growing counties in the U.S. from July 2013 to July 2014, according to census estimates released Thursday.

Call it a gravity phenomenon, with the two cities pulling populations toward each other. Assuming these trends continue, it’s more likely the two cities will “become more tied as a function of all the population and economic activity that’s occurring” between them.

Bexar County was not among the country’s fastest-growing counties in percentage terms. But Bexar was sixth in the U.S. for largest population increases from 2013 to 2014, growing by 34,000 people. The county’s total population is now 1.85 million, said Ben Bolender, chief of the population estimates branch at the census.

Census estimates hint at mega-region between San Antonio and Austin - San Antonio Express-News

Both Metropolitan Area's grew roughly 60,000 each. A total of almost 120,000 new people between 2013-2014. We can expect that trend to continue for a long while.

[Plutonic Panda]

Austin-San Antonio CSA imagine that!!

[JoninATX]

It's not to far off. Hey Plutonic Panda did you ever make it down to SA?