Tag:Texas
The statue of Our Lady of Loreto watches over visitors to the chapel, dedicated in Her name, in Goliad, Texas. The chapel dates back to the late 1760s and has been in continuous use since. Lincoln Borglum sculpted the statue of Our Lady of Loreto. She stands in a niche above the chapel entrance. Among Borglum’s other works, albeit on a slightly larger scale, is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The Spanish established the Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de […]
I’ve often flown over the wind farms of the Texas panhandle. The other weekend I had an opportunity to drive through some of them. I think the first wind turbine I recall was the one just off Junction 11 of the M4 in Reading, England. Since then, now many years ago, I’ve grown used to seeing these turbines sprouting from the tops of distant hills while driving in California and other US states. Driving along I-20, I felt harried on […]
“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 […]
For today’s photo I chose an image of one set of air vents at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, TX. The building is named after Houston engineer George Rufus Brown, who joined his brother, Herman, in his fledgling engineering company, Brown and Root, in 1922. I worked with successor company, KBR, from 2009 – 2013. In these air vents I find similarities with the services of the Pompidou Center in Paris. And when I lived in […]
