Happy New Year – 2019!

January 1, 2019
Travel

Handheld image of red fireworks exploding over Cinderella's Castle, bathed in blue light, in Disney World, Florida

Well here we are in 2019. If you were in New York for the celebrations, then you got wet and the fireworks were a bust this year. Here in Katy,…

London Buses on Whitehall in the Rain

December 31, 2018
Black and White / Travel

Two Route 11 London busses drive up Whitehall on a rainy afternoon.

A final post for 2018. I recently resumed scanning my slide collection - digitalization in the parlance of today. One of my recent finds was this image of London Buses…

Portal in the Parc André Citroën

May 7, 2017
Architecture / Black and White / Travel

A portal formed by the granite towers on the south-western edge of the Parc André Citroën

What does a city do when a major manufacturer moves to a new location and their old factories become derelict? If that city is Paris, France, and that manufacturer is…

Welcome to Katy

April 16, 2017
Travel

Union Pacific 5950 locomotive at Katy, TX.

"Welcome to Katy" says the sign on the water tower in the background at right in this image of the UP 5950. The red logo on the side of the…

Rough Ride

March 26, 2017
Black and White / Travel

Rough Ride - a cowboy competes at bronco riding at the Katy ISD FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Well, the 2017 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo comes to a close tonight and I'm sure more than a few cowboys and cowgirls will be headed home nursing sore and…

Chevron Towers

February 26, 2017
Architecture / Travel

The Chevron Towers (formerly Enron Towers) in downtown Houston at night.

A couple of weeks ago Super Bowl 51 was played at NRG Park in Houston. In the years I've lived in the area, the Houston skyline has changed quite a…