San Antonio

I'm in San Antonio this week. I like coming here to work, but I don't think I could live here, it's far too conservative at times. I especially like going to my favorite spots over in Alamo Heights and Terrell Hills. There is some great architecture through out the neighborhoods there. Last night we saw a classic arts and crafts home complete with large sago palms in the front yard that was delightfully restored to it's original condition. We drove by the beautiful mansion on New Braunsfel which now houses the McNay Art Museum
and enjoyed the old Spanish style design. The San Antonio Botanical Gardens had two stunningly unique glass hot houses that just amazed us. And of course there is Broadway with the interesting shops and stores. Unfortunately one of my favorite places along Broadway, Earl Abels Restaurant has been torn down to make way for condos. Isn't that just the way!

Ealier in the day we were in Southern San Antonio by the Missions, which we inadvertently managed to drive by on our way to a provider. We also got to see the old Stinson Airport, an intersting old place. They are renovating parts of it though to expand the little cafe, add some shops and increase the size of the airport. I hope they maintain the integrity of the architecuture there, it's just so classic WPA era.


I think the green lushness of everything made it everything even more attractive. They have had a significant amount of rain here this spring and all the grass, trees and plants are growing by leaps and bounds. In fact they had really heavy rains early Tuesday morning with high winds that broke some limbs off of the trees and dropped lots of leaves every where.

The traffic here is a little crazy right now with all the construction on I-10 and Loop 410, but it moves along, slowly, but at least it doesn't come coming to a complete halt like it can in Austin.