
One thing I had to get used to in Texas is that some evergreen trees have actual leaves instead of needles, including magnolias, live oaks and some other type of tree in the yard here that so far I haven't identified. Austin doesn't look nearly as barren in winter as Kansas or even Fort Worth.

(I'm using the term "winter" loosely; it was cold for a week or so, and cold at night for a couple weeks more, around the end of December and the first part of January.)
Right outside my door, at the top of the stairs, is a morning glory vine that finds its way up into a big pecan tree. I've heard of morning glories but this was the first time I've seen them up close; the flowers bloom blue in the morning, turn purplish by afternoon and die by nighttime. Unlike some flowering plants they keep it up, a few blooms at a time, for months -- at least this vine did.

I didn't bother with pix but there are three pizza places within half a block of 29th and Guadalupe. Conan's is the best. One stays open till about 4am on weekends. That's a nice college-town contrast from Fort Worth, where if you got the pizza jones after about 11 your only choice was a frozen über-puck from 7-11. But I digress.



I get my health-food necessities at Wheatsville. One big draw of the neighborhood I moved into is that I can walk here. Austin is the most friendly city I've lived in for getting by without a car. Except for one weekend when I had to rent a car to take one of my cats to the emergency vet, I




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(I'm using the term "winter" loosely; it was cold for a week or so, and cold at night for a couple weeks more, around the end of December and the first part of January.)
Now you know what a South Texas "winter" is like. :)
Wow, I am sure glad I read your blog. Otherwise, I would have never known that Texas has mild weather and Austin is quirky! You mean the Spiderhouse has crappy service? My mind is thoroughly blown. Keep up the good work, and make sure and eat plenty of veg foods! Now that I know that Austin has those kinds of things, I can recommend that you do so.
Craig: Not only that, it's more progressive than the rest of the state. There's even a big college here. And the other day I think I saw a bat.
Everytime I see these kind of photos of Austin, I wonder why I'm not living there.
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