We found a stone slab inscribed, crudely, "FORT GRIFFIN"!
We decided to take it with us, lest it be crushed by heavy road equipment or shoveled into a debris pile and buried in a landfill. We did some research when we got back home and soon contacted someone affiliated with the Fort Griffin historical site in Albany, Texas. More on that later. We continued our drive on Martin Luther King, encountering road construction almost every mile of the way.
It's good that improvements are being made.
Lubbock cemetery in the distance...
This is the view from the overpass...
And now we approach Mae Simmons Park, part of the Canyon Lakes...
We decided to get some more pictures in Slaton. You can get to the Slaton Highway by taking 98th West, and that's convenient for us, so we took that route and quickly found a detour. Lots of road construction. This is really out in the boonies. So we followed the detour signs and I took a few pics along the way. But the detours terminated at another dead end, with lots of road construction equipment in evidence. But we also found the ruins of something we had photographed a few years ago. It was a combo beer joint and "gentleman's club" and apparently it had burned in the meantime. Since we were going to have trouble getting to Slaton, we decided to stop and photograph these ruins.
Little did we know, that we would make an interesting discovery there, and uncover and preserve a bit of Texas history!
There is not much in this part of town I consider actually interesting, but we found these things recently, near Quaker and 82nd... that general area.
And here are some photos I took one evening of threatening clouds, just prior to a thunderstorm. There appear to be tiny motes floating around and I've concluded that the flash reflected from mosquitoes.
Wow. You never can tell what you might find behind a fence!
No, these are more pics from the poorer side of town.
Somehow, I just like this stuff.
We decided to take it with us, lest it be crushed by heavy road equipment or shoveled into a debris pile and buried in a landfill. We did some research when we got back home and soon contacted someone affiliated with the Fort Griffin historical site in Albany, Texas. More on that later. We continued our drive on Martin Luther King, encountering road construction almost every mile of the way.
It's good that improvements are being made.
Lubbock cemetery in the distance...
This is the view from the overpass...
And now we approach Mae Simmons Park, part of the Canyon Lakes...
