The deck at HEB's Central Market is wonderful. Full of folks: parents with children, singletons taking a quick lunch whilst reading how-to get ahead books, high schoolers eating quickly to get back, college students trying to relax while cramming physics into their heads, me waiting for a meeting to begin... and Grackles.
These brown and black birds are Austin's version of the pigeon. We have pigeons too, but there's just something so much cooler about a grackle. They are LOUD, they screech and warble and make sirens. They are bold - I swear they will come right to the table and take a french fry off your plate while you are sitting there! And they are ours - I don't ever notice grackles in other places - they just mean Austin to me.
So here is your Daily Dose of Austin's grackles and Central Market's deck. Enjoy!
