Throwback Thursday: Astrodome

    Took this photo most likely in 1994. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was in town, and I was apparently on the Ferris wheel at the time. I love the Dome. Opened in 1965, home to the Houston Astros baseball and Oilers football teams. I went to so many Astros games that I didn't know what it was like to watch a professional baseball game outdoors! It wasn't until I saw a game in Tiger Stadium in Detroit in 1999 that I experienced pro ball the way most people know it! I pray that they never tear the Dome down. It was the first of its kind and deserves to be preserved.

Weird Wednesday

   This Shell gas station was built in the shape of a giant shell in 1930. It is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in the day when people were just starting to get out in their cars and do road trips. The "heyday" of crazy buildings and roads like the Lincoln Highway and Route 66. Very few examples of this "literal architecture" have survived.

Back Roads on a Cloudy Day

   Went out for a solo drive on the back roads of Middle Tennessee last Saturday. I do more scouting for places I want to come back and photograph when I'm out solo for a few hours than I do actual stopping. I am usually too afraid to get out alone or can't find a safe place to pull over. Still got a few interesting pictures.

Lincoln Memorial

   Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. Sight of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech given by Martin Luther King on August 28, 1963. 

 "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

National Hat Day

National Sticker Day

   Saw this Esso mascot sticker on a car at the Murfreesboro Cruise-In a few years ago.

Churchyard of St Helena, Beaufort, SC