Civilization in Colleyville

Monday afternoon

When I first mentioned that I was looking for someplace to pick up a NYT out in Colleyville, the parents just looked at me with that sad look of some one who knows that well, there is something lacking. Eventually, there will be a Borders then there can be a hope for civilization. Until then, it’s a trek. Or as I found it out, the trip to the nearest Starbucks.

More imaginatively, I imagine how the town of Euless must have been. Each neighborhood development is walled, and most are relatively new. The pattern is one of denser develop0ment that is nonetheless suburban in nature -- ie. no relationship to any fixed center. Off to the side one can see homes of a later vintage, perhaps from the sixties. Underneath, I wonder what the land once looked like, the ranches, the farms. Little is left of that now. Just houses, and airplanes taking off overhead.

Update
I asked some of the locals, "where does the country start?" and they said that you had to go a little further out, still even here, not quite on the edge of the city, bits of the landscape keep poking through. Not everything is developed.

Tuesday night we were in Grapevine, an old farm community. To be on a real mainstreet actually felt good.