West Texas as I saw it

3/28/2013

The sand dunes are winning

Friday, March 22 I traveled from Houston to El Paso on Southwest Airlines. 3 days, 8 counties, 796 road miles, and 881 digital images later, I returned to Houston late Sunday night, tired but excited by my first courthouse road trip of the year. This part of Texas, west of the Pecos River, is my favorite. What follows are some representative photos of the weekend. I'll fill in the details in another blog post. For now, here's some eye candy:

Petal to the metal on I-10 east bound

You can't make this stuff up

"V" for Van Horn

Off the interstate, on US 90 south of Van Horn

UFO? No, USAF

Only in Marfa

Alpine carnival

Jeff Davis County scene

Fort Davis, Texas has a courthouse

The spring at Balmorhea, in southern Reeves County

I-10 again, east bound in Pecos County

Fort Stockton is well decorated

I'll take their word for it

Marathon, Texas is a trip

Post Park south of Marathon

In the Davis Mountains

I did photograph courthouses. More on this road trip in the next installment of El Paso and the Trans Pecos counties.

2 Comments

joni

3/29/2013 02:14:39 am

awesome, just awesome. Can't wait for the rest of the pix and stories to come

Stephen Byrd

12/30/2013 05:55:06 am

When I was 8 years old and living on Stanford Street in Houston, I started writing to county judges across Texas asking for courthouse pictures. Many were sent as postcards, some were sent as b/w photos with nice letters. My Dad, Sig Byrd, even wrote a piece in his Byrd's Eye View column in the Houston Chronicle.

When I was in Vietnam, Papa had to sell the house and its contents. Trash and Treasure bought much of my stuff. I've often wondered what happened to this scrapbook and to the many letters. I had a long way to go to get to 254. I got back to Houston in the fall of 1972. All was gone. Hopefully somewhere, someone is enjoying the collection effort.

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Leonard G. Lane, Jr., AIA
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I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could. I'm an architect. And, a photographer on the side.
I live in Houston, with my wife, Donna. After our daughter, Hilary, passed the Texas Bar exam she took the oath as an attorney in the historic Harris County courthouse on Friday, November 15, 2013.

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