Category:Travel
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, I had a low-key celebration with my family. There were plenty of fireworks in the neighborhood, but mostly a cacophony of sound rather than a display of light and color. Watching my website stats last night, my most popular post was How to Photograph Fireworks without a tripod. Since I […]
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 on Whitehall in the rain. The picture was taken in early November 1998. I was on an open-top tour bus in what was perhaps more of a steady drizzle than a light rain. Perhaps only the English have so many words for rain? I’ve heard it said of London Buses […]
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 Citroën, well, you turn it into a park of course – the Parc André Citroën. For the two years I lived in Paris, the Parc André Citroën was my back yard. In the winter I could see the park from my kitchen and living room windows. In the summer, the […]
“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 water tower is the logo of the Katy Tigers, eight-time winners of the state high school football championship. In the foreground sits two Union Pacific locomotives, the UP 9590 and the UP 9698. Both are GE C44-9W model locos. The UP 9590 was built in June of 1994 while the […]
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 bruised limbs after a rough ride. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to the Houston Rodeo personally. Held at NRG stadium where the Houston Texans play NFL football, I’ve never gotten a seat close to the action. Two weeks before the Houston show, the Katy ISD and FFA […]
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 bit. Despite the downturn in the local economy caused by the collapse of the oil price in late 2014, construction has continued across the city and more glass towers have recently been completed downtown. Houston is a classic western US city with a (mostly) grid-based street layout and a massive […]