Austin has some absolutely beautiful things to see. It’s easy for me to get caught up doing things indoors so I’ve been making a concious effort to get out there and check things out!
Wednesday night I went to Blues On The Green. Beautiful evening. Zilker Park (possibly has the best grass in the world, p.s.), and live music. And about 10,000 other people, just hanging out on the grass. And the city skyline as a backdrop.
Super good people watching. I was looking around at all the different people Wednesday night at Zilker Park. And I realized that one of the things that makes Austin unique is that there is SUCH a diverse population of people here (free-spirits, more corporate people who probably work for the government, Dell/tech. places here, educators…St. Ed’s and UT…a huge student population, a huge artist/musician population, etc.) however, everyone just seems to kinda co-exist. No one really judges or gives the ‘elevator look’ to anyone else…everyone just kinda does their own thing.
I think Michael was the one who told me the following and it’s so true: In Austin, if you are weird, there is someone more/less weird, if you are musical, there is someone more/less musical, if you are random, there is someone around here more or less random…the diversity (and I’m not talking skin color) is huge, but the thing that Austinites seem to have in common which makes this city unique is that there’s just this underlying “live and let live” mentality which I think is very very cool.
And then last night…just seemed like a good night for a little night driving / exploration.
I ended up at an archery field? Random…
Up toward Lake Travis…
Emma Long Park
Finally, ended up at St. Ed’s where there is a perfect view of the Austin skyline. This picture of course does not do the beautiful view justice, but wow, if you haven’t checked it out…do.
