It’s probably not a good idea to take photos from your car as you’re driving in Houston–if you’ve never been here, think every bad movie cliché of L.A. freeway traffic, then turn all the cars into pickups and Hummers and add guns. So these aren’t that great since I had to shoot them on the move, but:
Looking west down I-10 last Friday as the sun set.
Looking east last night as the moon rose.
That’s a residential high rise on the edge of prestigious River Oaks.
I love the first one.
I’ve tried to take pictures while driving on the interstate and always screw them up. The ones I took here(http://geb1966ky.livejournal.com/64486.html), I was able to pull off, because I was on country highways.
I liked those pictures when you posted them–so Southern. One of the things I miss is stopping in old country stores with screen doors… When my father would buy me a 6 oz. Coke and pour peanuts in it for me… Or stopping by the roadside with my parents to pick up peaches or boiled peanuts…
I especially like the photo of the wildflowers.
OMG, I sooo remember peanuts in my coke bottle.
There are a couple of country stores along Highway 25, but I haven’t yet gotten a photo of them.
my ex from a few years back lives in that high rise…were you up early enough to this morning to see the sunrise through all the fog and cloud cover and the moon just as bright and still in the sky as if it were still night?
No. I love moments like that though. It sounds beautiful.
you know Becks, I went to a lot of training classes in lovely HOUSTON never thought much of it … but you make it pretty in words and pictures.
If what you see of Houston is I-45 or Hwy 59 between IAH and Houston, or I-45 between Hobby and Houston, then you’d be justified in thinking Houston is shit. Nothing but concrete and one dreary strip center after another. I-10 is another endless stretch of depression.
You have to get inside the neighborhoods to find the charm. Even in the most homogenous suburbs, you can be driving along and suddenly find little pockets of beauty.
It’s the flatness, the heat, and the mosquitos that make it a formidable place to live for me. I can deal with the traffic and even the palmetto bugs. I do love our museums, parks, live oaks, and skyline. And I also love the diversity of the people.
Next time we meet i will tell you about my drunkin night in Montrose when my friend John tried to pee out the window while we were speeding down I-45
Frightening.
Stephen King material.
Not Houston, the John part.
I clicked on the River Oaks link, and clicked on the movie theater one; it says, they’re not going to tear down your Baby River Oaks! : )
I like both of those! (even though the first one looks like you were driving in the ditch) 🙂
I was wishing I had my camera tonight while I was walking the dogs because the moon was so big and bright–a harvest moon for us here in the corn belt.
Oh no matter the movement, the sunset shot is just lovely. That gorgeous line of pink on the horizon . . .
And the moon seems so huge at that angle.