Texas photos for SKScreamer

[ravyrn]

This is a "weed" that grows in my yard (East TX)


The road in front of my house (East TX)


A couple of Texas sunsets (N. of Dallas)


This one was really neat, it had been storming and dark all day. Then I noticed a red haze on the top of the houses and ran to the hill near my old house to snag this photo, also north of Dallas. There was a very thin break in the clouds on the horizon that made for a neat view


And a big fissure in the ground from the intense drought (N. of Dallas)


All taken w/ my Iphone, so not the best of photos, but there you go.

[Kalrany]

Here are a few more....


This night show shows a monument to the victims of the 1900 storm that hit Galveston Island. It sits near the midpoint of the Galveston Seawall.


Our "alien." Our plam was seeding during a rare Gavleston frost.


A storm was comming in -- here the clouds are rolling in over the bayou.


The construction phase of the all new Galveston Pleasure Pier. I do believe this photo is a one-of-a-kind, as the Pier has been open for over a year now.


A plane "waits for takeoff" at the Glaveston Island Flight Museum.


A fishing pier in the Gulf of Mexico at dawn. There are many little jetties along the Seawall in Galveston.


Here is the historic main street, The Strand, at dawn.


We witnessed history as the Shuttle Endeavour stopped at NASA overnight in Houston.


The Hotel Galvez on the Seawall Blvd on Galveston Island.

Here are a few from around Galveston Island. We have many more both from here and around the state...

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Finally I get to see more of your beautiful State!!!! Please oh please keep adding to the pics here!
Soooooo happy to see two of you Texans take lots and lots of pics!!!

The only thing we have in common is the *weed*...here it is an exotic plant!
My great grandfather grew them when he went down to California for the winter (he'd bring back bags of his fruit every spring).

One would swear the fissure pic is all that is to be seen down there by the posts the others make here!

[ravyrn]

The only thing we have in common is the *weed*...here it is an exotic plant!
My great grandfather grew them when he went down to California for the winter (he'd bring back bags of his fruit every spring).

Yeah, it's a beautiful flower. I've got a vine growing on a portion of my fence and on my workshop. I didn't plant it, but I don't imagine I'll pull the vine up anytime soon

[Hurricane_Luis]

The only thing we have in common is the *weed*...here it is an exotic plant!
My great grandfather grew them when he went down to California for the winter (he'd bring back bags of his fruit every spring).

Yeah, it's a beautiful flower. I've got a vine growing on a portion of my fence and on my workshop. I didn't plant it, but I don't imagine I'll pull the vine up anytime soon

Looks like a type of passion flower. I have them growing in my garden. That one you have ravyrn, is called Passiflora incarnata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora

[wxman57]

Can't have a Texas pictures thread without bluebonnets. This is a shot I took last spring from on of our bike trails just north of downtown. My house would be about 12 miles behind those downtown buildings.



Here is a wider view looking a little left of the image above. The bluebonnets lined the sides of White Oak Bayou and were quite fragrant.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

They are gorgeous Wxman57!

I keep coming back here to peek at the pics above. I love the road with all the greenery in front of Ravryn's yard, the sunsets and all the pics from Galveston (beaches/water are few and far between here and certainly nothing like the above!

Wonderful as well to see Endeavor so close and personal.

Thank you! Please don't be shy about uploading more!!!

[Tireman4]

We can send some heat pictures too....100+ heat pictures and we have attachments of heat with them.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

well I'm sure some farmers here would appreciate that heat still but after going through what brought this on (been this way for about a month and 1/2):



and dryness so bad that my skin is screaming so I think I'll skip your offer thanks Tireman4.

our grass is brown and crispy now and we also have deep fissure cracks

[ravyrn]

Yeah, due to the cold weather lingering in March, we didn't have many bluebonnets this Spring. Here's a hill near my house north of Dallas from 2012 tho.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

I can certainly see why Texans are so proud of their Bluebonnets!

What a gorgeous sight!

[vbhoutex]

I can certainly see why Texans are so proud of their Bluebonnets!

What a gorgeous sight!

I NEVER tire of going out and seeing the bluebonnet fields. Makes for some gorgeous pictures, especially with little grand children running around and playing in them.

[ravyrn]

Leaves are starting to change in ETX. Not a lot of sun today so photos don't really show how deeply red these vines are.

[ravyrn]

Got these little mushroom clusters in the yard after last night's rain.

[ravyrn]

Yard pics:

[ravyrn]

Woods pics:

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Your grass is as green as mine now Ravyrn! (mine however may be white sometime very soon ). Love seeing your (?) yard and the tree pictures (what a treat for these prairie eyes)!

My plants are still in my greenhouse (have a heavy duty warmth tarp now over it as well as a heater going). This week I'll be contacting a local greenhouse that has advertised that they will take in plants over the winter (mine isn't made to do that).

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

And the mushrooms! Are they the edible horse mushrooms???

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Oh and what variety of tree is the really red leaf from?

[ravyrn]

Housesitting for my mother while she's vacationing -- her yard. I believe it's a maple? I'm not really sure, I got some leaf guides when I was in FFA I can check if you'd like. No clue on the mushrooms. I don't bother picking in ETX as I'm unfamiliar with what's edible. Used to always go pick mushrooms when I'd spend my summers in Colorado. We'd get lots of yummies on some old logging roads.

EDIT: Thanks to Kennethb, the leaf is from the vine. It's a Virginia Creeper.