SteveR Loc: Michigan

Santa Fe, Taos and place in between!!

Tex-s

I’ll second the Fredericksburg museum but I believe its name is Pacific War Museum. I spent hours reading, listening and learning there.

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

It is also said, if you could pick up Texas and using Texarkana as the tilting pivot point, laying the State flat, El Paso would be in the Atlantic Ocean; tilting West using El Paso as the pivot point, Texarkana would be in the Pacific Ocean.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

Back in the late '60s, I believe it was, the New Yorker magazine ran a long, multi-part "profile" on Texas called The Super-American State. I remember it being an entertaining read, and looking forward to the next issue as it was being rolled out. The one factoid I remember is that if you drive from Dallas to LA, when you get to El Paso you're half way there.

jklepomis

This is a photo site. What are your interests? Street photography? Yeah, Austin and small towns. Nature and birds? The coast and south Texas. Landscape, Big Bend, Palo Duro and Caprock Canyon parks. Also good for astrophotography.

jklepomis

This is a photo site. What are your interests? Street photography? Yeah, Austin and small towns. Nature and birds? The coast and south Texas. Landscape, Big Bend, Palo Duro and Caprock Canyon parks. Also good for astrophotography.

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

If looking for big scenery, the best time to photograph them is dawn and dusk, plus or minus an hour or so.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

If you go to Fredericksburg, Luckenbach is just down the road. The old, quaint post office is there and is a great thing to photograph. Souvenirs can be purchased inside. But it's that iconic shot of the old post office with the Luckenbach sign that you'll be able to hang somewhere in your office that you'll want to get.

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

I think October is peak of migration in Padre Island. Bird migration in Texas are spectacular.
On Cedar Creek lake 75 miles south of Dallas pelicans, egrets of different kinds come to roost on three islands set aside for that.
In Horseshoe bay Monarch butterflies and hummingbirds
In Dallas mainly crows but even here in White Rock lake plenty of waterbirds

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

Austin : at dusk under a bridge downtown many bats come out. Same in Old Tunnel, nearby 19 th Century stone German farmhouses, yes Texas can be picturesque

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

I lived in Corpus Christi and Dallas as well as six years in Silver City. Texas is no better or worse than any other state (I have also lived in California, Oregon, Arizona, Ohio and Virginia).

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

Also, El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than it is to Dallas.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Good vacation choice. When you come to Texas think about it as visiting a country in a country. The rest of the US is an also ran compared to Texas. Yes, typical 'Texas attitude'.

The first notion that you need to understand about Texas is tat in the center of the state is a triangle, that is Houston to the Eat and a long line along the western edge that is Dallas/Fort Worth in the north down to the South at San Antonio. The rest of Texas is of no great importance. Everything that is lies along the boundaries of these three major triangle lines with Austin lying between Dallas and San Antonio.

The great hidden jewel of the Texas is quite simply The University of Texas. In Houston, not that you will visit the UT MD Anderson Hospital, anchored in the Downtown Medical Center, you have the absolute finest cancer research facility in the world. Also, Anderson has so much money they could operate the entire State of Texas and never touch the principle.

Now how important is the University of Texas beyond cancer research? he chief of clinics at the UT Dentil School reshaped all of modern medicine through out the world by pushing through CPR as standard required practice for all medical personal and that reshaped medicine in your country and most civilized countries in the world creating the foundation of Emergency Medical Services placing these services in most fire departments (as opposed to police departments). Sow me a country or doctor who does not know and is required to demonstrate CPR as a requirement for their license. Late 1970's/early 1980's, University of Texas Dental School, right next door to M D Anderson Hospital.

If you are looking at photography, UT Humanity Research Center in Austin Texas, The Harry Ransom Center. The first photograph and pretty much the entire early history of photography for the first fifty years. Of course, open to the public with rotating exabition's year round. Yes, the University of Texas.

If you want architecture, that is San Antonio. The conservation Society stopped counting buildings in San Antonio for it's registry at 10,000. An example, go to 110 Broadway and on foot go behind the building between 110 and the Federal building and you will see painted signs for advertising on the old building from the 1920's. But, look down at your feet, find a spot where the asphalt has become lifted and see the original down town street made up of raw cur cedar that was the original 'road' foundation that was there during the siege of the Alamo. And just down the street you can see the second daguerreotype studio built in the US, now the oldest existing original daguerreotype studio in the world that is still existing unaltered. While you are standing in front of it, you will notice that Broadway on that section of Broadway changes direction the goes back to it's original course, and that is the reason for that glitch in the path of Broadway because the second story building is where the natural north face lighting studio exists. The building is marked with a placard and is owned by the SA Conservation Society.

Texas is loaded with things to see and discover, many define what we know about our world, many never explained nor noted even the history of the modern world. This is why Texas is so important to the US and the world.

The building that I own and have as Mission Road Studio is on Mission Road. Across the street is the location for the first electrical generating plant for San Antonio. My building is where Teddy Rosevelt and his officers put up their tents and where that generating plant now stands is where the Rough Riders were formed up with their supplies and horses and mules to begin training. The railroad track down the street was were trps and supplies were off loaded. Teddy slept in what is my garden in a pecan grove that provided shade and fire wood that is all around me. And that is why the street next to my building is named Yellowstone and the park at the corner is named Rosevelt Park. (The street I live on is the original Mission Road, the first Mission of that Mission System is just down the street and around the corner). It is part of the San Antonio River Park. Texas is a rather interesting place to visit, even better to live in.

By the way, if you visit San Antonio, be sure to visit the Southwest School of Art (now part of the UT) which was the old Urseline Academy School, before it became the Southwest Craft Center in the 1960's. Great example of Spanish ram filled rubble building found in the US.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Port Aransas and Rockport on the Gulf are great places to visit. I'm not sure what bird species might be present, but if they're still there, catch a boat tour into Aransas Bay which, interestingly, is in Rockport. Great beaches in Port Aransas. If you go there, try to get a reservation in one of the high rise condos which rent out right on the beach. One cool thing, you can drive your car on the beach which stretches all the way to Corpus Christi. Pelicans are always flying in formation from Corpus to Port Aransas and vice versa. They're know as the Port Aransas Air Force.

scooter1 Loc: Yacolt, Wa.