Wells Branch Parkway, the street we lived on in northern Austin, makes a rather accurate sinusoidal wave--an S-curve--between I-35 and Mopac, the two Austin north-south highways. Along the street live all sorts of apartment complexes, and just south of our complex, closer to Mopac, lives a still rural area of what used to be considered "the sticks" of north Austin. Streets named Pansy and Daisy mark small ribbons of asphalt, nearly overgrown with greenery. Here's a street with the driveways on either side barely visible behind overgrowth.
Fences made of chainlink are rare; brush does that for you. In the blasting humidity and heat of the summer, everyone sweats until the AC gets turned on, which is always will be.
Making a turn out of the small lush and slightly hill-billy neighborhood one drives a few hundred feet as arrows guide the road off to the left. The last arrow is visible in the next picture...
Directly adjacent to that rural style neighborhood is this cookie cutter affluence. Sidewalks and manicured lawns mark well-off and predominantly white neighborhoods, and the shapes of the homes speak to their newness.
The tech and television industry have many effects on Austin, and here's one that's only ever talked about by heady naturalists like me.
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