You know you're in Texas when..... you have corn stalks stuck to your rear fender. We thought this was amusing, a beat up old car having driven across the fields to get to the local hang-out…..

Framed And Shot

At the advice of a British friend gone native Texan, who insisted we needed to see more of Texas than the bright lights and glitz of the Houston metropolis, we went forth. He recommended a trip into the depths of rural Texas visiting places like Rosebud, Temple, Milano, Hanover, Elevation and so on, with his good advice we loaded the car and set off. Want to see where we went? The map shows the route - just a small part of Texas. After all, Texas is bigger than France and we did'nt have that many days!
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Early morning
This is the first picture from our trip. We wanted to start early to get the good light

You know you're in Texas when.....
you have corn stalks stuck to your rear fender. We thought this was amusing, a beat up old car having driven across the fields to get to the local hang-out…..

Breakfast (not at Tiffany’s)
The owners of the car in the previous shot. These guys were enjoying their breakfast at the local Dairy Queen. It would have been more authentic to us if it was a barbecue shack, but no such luck!
And no woman looking the slightest like Audrey Hepburn either….
So this quote from the book will have to do:
[I]t’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

Corn was Here
There is a lot if corn production in Texas. We were a bit late in the season.
Corn is important for Texas. Corn, sometimes called maize, covers Texas chronology from prehistoric to present times. A close relatives of corn, have been found in caves in the Hueco Mountains; the chapalote corn race existed in pre-Spanish Texas. Spanish explorers of the early 1500s found Indians growing corn in East Texas, and the Spanish carried on corn culture at the Rio Grande valley settlements and the Texas missions. They ate the grain as a basic ingredient in tortillas, tamales, posole, and atole.
Today Texas harvests nearly 2 million acres annually.

Scorched Earth
It has been a very dry summer in our part of Texas. Thankfully not as dry as the summer of 1980 when President Jimmy Carter came to show his concern. The President said the Government was trying to do everything it could, and added “We’ll be praying for rain and cooler weather in the future.”

Clarkson Baptist Church
Religion is important in the south, and most places have large and impressive churches. This belongs to the more modest style. And who knows, maybe money is not everything.
There’s not too much known about Clarkson, Clarkson is a ghost town, resting peacefully in the middle of north-central Texas farmland. It had a post-office from 1889 through 1906, when mail was moved to Rosebud. In 1903 Clarkson had two local schools, one for 43 white students, one for 105 black students. By the 1940s, Clarkson’s population had dwindled to 50. In 1990 it was down to 10.
Today, Clarkson consists of a few scattered farmhouses still occupied, the old Clarkson Baptist Church, the Clarkson Cemetery with old and new tumbstones, and the old schoolhouse down the road is falling into disrepair.

Temple Bus Center
It is mid-day and the sun is beating down in Temple. This bus station with its typical sign and washed out colors in the middle of the day is our childhood image of road trips, and closely connected to waiting….
Temple was originally founded in 1881 as a railroad town. In 1880 Jonathan E. Moore sold 187 acres of his land to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway to use for a construction camp. The site was called Temple Junction by the railroad company, in honor of one of the engineers, Bernard Moore Temple,while local residents called the community Mud Town or Tanglefoot. When a post office was established there in January 1881, the official name became Temple

Nodding Donkey
No series from Texas would be complete without the nodding donkey.
The pumpjack (also known as nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, beam pump, sucker rod pump (SRP), grasshopper pump, thirsty bird and jack pump) is the overground drive for a reciprocating piston pump. To summarize: what every you call it, this is a slow moving pump for low pressure oil reservoirs . And it is a common sight (and smell!) when you are on a road trip in Texas

You know you're in Texas when.....
you have corn stalks stuck to your rear fender. We thought this was amusing, a beat up old car having driven across the fields to get to the local hang-out…..

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