Working on the next book, too drained to pound out the requisite 500-800 words, where a simple picture will do. Herewith, a look at stuff by the side of the road in Texas. Strictly scenic and or/alive, which means that - Sorry, you'll have to go someplace else for the titzup armadillo with a beer bottle in its paws.
Autumn foliage in Wimberly
Still life entitled: Defunct Stop-n-go with Arrangment of Rusting Vintage Automobile
A Meditation of Winter Fields with Aspect of Distant Trees and Hills
Avenues of Stately Old Oaks in Historic Richmond, Texas
Avenues of Stately Concrete Highway Supports in Unhistoric San Antonio
Haunted Ruins with Primroses - Hot Wells, San Antonio
Defunct Bank - The Ghosts of Deposits Past
Donna's Beauty Shop - Is the Opposite of Defunct - Funct?
Right, then - Donna's Beauty Shop is Funct
The Opposite of Tall Cotton - Very Short Cotton
Near Tuscola, Texas
Why, Yes - Everything is Big in Texas. Including the Sky. And the Stars at Night are Also Big and Bright. We've been telling you so for decades.
Old Pioneer Graveyard in Menard
A casual stroll by the shore - Corpus Christi
Along the Strand, Corpus Christi
Seeing the Elephant - Main Street, Fredericksburg
Public Library, Main Street, Fredericksburg
Easy Pickens BBQ, in Harper - Main Street
Meadows, by Baron's Creek, Outskirts of Fredericksburg
There you go - a nice little travelog of Texas, from the Gulf to the Hill Country and beyond. Enjoy!
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The back roads are wonderful, though - two lanes, maybe a passing lane, and nothing but scenery on either side, scenery and little towns.
Kathy and P - you would love the old Hot Wells ruins - they aren't generally open to the public now, but I was doing pictures to go with a freelance article for a local mag, and I had permission. It was a wonderful place - I had the feeling that it was haunted, but in a good way. People had experienced nothing much but pleasure and enjoyment there, and it lingered on. The place had a very serene feel about it.
Alas, ON - that's far, far west Texas. Which is what people see in the movies, mostly - (It's desert, people! Desert! Dry as a bone! They filmed movies in the starkly spectacular parts - but it's still a desert!) - the thing that I think most people don't expect is that at least half of Texas is rather green and attractive. Meadows, and pine-woods, and stands of oaks, and nice-looking rivers ... not Cotswold or Lake District post-card scenic ... but still quite beautiful - as you can see here.
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