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Weekly Photo Challenge: Background

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A view of a statue on the Texas Capitol grounds. (Look through the windows.)

A statue seen through windows

A memorial statue

I visited with my friend Susan Miller recently. She lives in a heavily-wooded area that she appropriately named The Nature Channel. There was constant activity at the hummingbird and bird feeders while I was there: chickadees, cardinals, white wing doves, a roadrunner, a male and female ladder back woodpecker, hummingbirds, squirrels, bees. In this photo there is a squirrel at one feeder and some doves at the other.

Hummingbird and bird feeders outside a bay window

Susan’s Nature Channel

Everything is green on the Texas Capitol grounds with the recent rain.

Westgate Tower, across from the Texas Capitol

Westgate Tower, looking across the Texas Capitol grounds

Weekly Photo Challenge: Background

Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

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Escape. One of the places I go to be a tourist is Houston, Texas, taking advantage of what the big city offers.

The Art Car Museum is a good place to start.

An art car decorated as a turkey

Tired and Feathered by Joe Haden of Crockett, Texas

The Beer Can House is interesting. Yes, those are all beer cans and beer can tabs.

Beer Can House in Houston, Texas

Beer Can House

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston was my main destination for this trip, to see the Picasso Black and White exhibit. No photos were allowed of the exhibit, but here is a sort-of cubism photo of the building.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the outside of the building

Picasso Black and White

Other exhibits in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston are attention-worthy and photographs are allowed. Here is a sarcophagus panel from the 2nd century A.D.

Panther from a sarcophagus, 2nd century A.D.

Panther from a sarcophagus, 2nd century A.D.

And when all is said and done and I’m exhausted, I find respite on a tree-lined path across from the museum. Cool and serene.

A tree-lined sidewalk in Houston, Texas

Tree-lined and serene

Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape