Posted 8/18/2005 05:36:00 PM by Douglas

Random pictures from last week's travels.

My, that's a mighty fine porch ya got there. Is it new?

And here's Annie, the world's luckiest feral cat:

Sometimes you just gotta take care of business even if you're in the front yard.

The next few pictures were taken the way a small town should be toured: from the back of a moving pick-up. So they're a bit blurry.
Here's the tallest structure in town: a defunct water tower slightly obfuscated by a big red barn.

The Courthouse, with its Christmas star on top that's there year-round.

The Depot, and quite possibly the only surviving rail road tacks in the county.

This shop has seen better days, but the randomness of the pealing exterior looks less and less random the more I stared at it.

Jim, how's the tire business going? OK, I guess

And although probably not unique, I took this one because it's the only place I know of where there's a firework stand, a Sno-cone stand and a Dairy Queen within 25 feet from each other.

And finally, this one was from the way home. One of the many places the water was over the road.

Ironically, this is the detour TxDOT forced me onto after US287 was closed due to flooding. This one wasn't that bad, since the water wasn't so deep you couldn't see the center stripe.