Golden hour at Lady Bird Lake and downtown Austin

On these beauteous December days successful the ATX, whenever I can, I get myself retired of the house, marque my mode done vacation traffic, and acceptable retired connected the Hike and Bike Trail’s 3-mile loop. If my timing is good, there’s thing amended than seeing the buildings downtown and orange-needled bald cypresses on Lady Bird Lake glowing astatine aureate hour. This is the presumption from the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge.

Fall colour peaks successful Central Texas aft vacation decorations spell up, but I’ll instrumentality it whenever it comes. The burnt orangish foliage looks truthful beauteous against our blue-green skyline.

A glorious reddish oak too

The Lamar Boulevard Bridge makes an oval framework astir downtown, and I find it hard to defy pulling retired my camera again.

A acold beforehand was blowing successful arsenic the prima was going down, and downtown took connected a pastel glow.

As I crossed the water nether MoPac, the solid skyscrapers to the eastbound caught the past flash of sunset. Kayakers were warring a stiff headwind but inactive making bully time.

One past look, a small farther on the bridge

Looking west, toward the fading light. As I drove distant a fewer minutes later, the entity went mango and violet. I privation I’d gotten a photo, but it’s held successful my memory. Did you spot it too, Austin readers?

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