Galleries

Day 2; Corpus Christi. Not knowing any better, I decided to make a quick tour of the floating museum known as the U.S.S. Lexington. Six hours later, the self-paced walking tour wound me back to where I had begun it. I was amazed at all the periphenalia that the ship housed (There’s a strange turn…

I was coming back from Pharr, TX and took a detour through Corpus Christi. After visiting the museums, I asked the Visitor Information Center what they would suggest that I do. Although normally I don’t listen when people tell me where to go, I found myself driving south to Padre Island. I drove north across…

Laumeier Sculpture Park is a 116 acre venue for contemporary media artists works. Sculptures are exhibited in a museum and outdoors on landscaped lawns or woodland trails. Laumeier’s stated mission is to present contemporary sculpture that is created from and interacts with the environment. The park is located at 12580 Rott Rd. at Geyer Rd.,…

Most of the downtown area was built between 1901 and 1930 and remains in use today. A lot of the buildings are a testament to a long gone sense of esthetics. In some buildings, it appears that the builder went out of his way to add small cosmetic touches to make the finished facade more…

Work required that I be in Cherokee, OK with our good friends at the Alfalfa Electrical Cooperative. During lunch I walked up and down Main Street taking a few shots here and there. After I was finished with business, I made my way back to Bud’s Truck and Auto Salvage. They were kind enough to…

Compared to other court houses I’ve seen, the Washita County Court House is a beautiful piece of Architecture. It reminds me of some of the Texas county court houses in the way it dominates the center of town. A lot of other Oklahoma court houses are just blocks of granite sitting off to the side…