In the middle of nowhere? Not really, that’s just how it looks from this point of view. A phone shot taken early one morning while I was working.

Photos taken at Crescent Bend Nature Park near Schertz, Texas. The bird in the far background is, I think, a great white egret, often mistaken for a heron because of its size.

Crescent Bend was originally a neighborhood full of houses, but it was ignorantly built in a flood plain. The flood of 1998 completely submerged the entire neighborhood and it was condemned against any future residential use. Next time I’m there I’ll try to remember to get some shots of the what’s left of the old streets.

My phone doesn’t take very good photos. I have very little control over exposure and none at all over focus and depth of field. So, I don’t often post them here. I usually only post them on another blog to show people things I’ve seen without much concern for photo quality. But I kind of like the way this one turned out, so here it is.

One of the oldest markers in the cemetery for a woman who was 33 years old when she passed away in 1899.

This and the previous cemetery photos are from Marcelina Cemetery in Wilson County, Texas.

Rough hand-made concrete tombstones for infants who lived briefly during the early 1920s. The flag may be marking one of the several “lost” graves in this cemetery.

A very old tombstone in Marcelina Cemetery, Wilson County, Texas. I don’t know what the significance of the sheep is. Maybe he was a sheep rancher? I have several relatives and ancestors buried in this cemetery, but this man was not one of them.

I tumbled these in a small Mason jar rolled on its side and backlit them with a Maglite.  Three more photos of them at my Flickr photostream.