It's always nice to see some upkeep work being done on a courthouse.  Sure, there's a few that are having serious work done, but I mean doing the necessary to keep it going and not letting it fall into a state that requires such serious work to be done.  Of course, county budgets should be … Continue reading 159. Weatherford, Parker County →

Tiny… We're talking Paint Rock tiny. There's a little bit going on here, but not a lot worth going into detail over. I just want to do my business and get going. The closest cache was a couple blocks away at the cemetery (there always is one). A simple can-n-cap, found, signed, bing, bang, bo-wait … Continue reading 158. Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County →

Now that's a courthouse. Make I take a moment to give an architectural shoutout to two interesting architectural features here… The one on the left? I will never (well, hardly ever) not give a nod to one of the most influential and interesting Byzantine (actually Roman, so Gibbon can go suck a lemon) emperors. The … Continue reading 157. Breckenridge, Stephens County →

So, Albany...! Yeah, I got nuthin'. Nothing clever or super interesting. It's got a lot of war monuments, so there's that. Just an earnest small town. Apparently there's a long running outdoor musical here called the Fort Griffin Fandangle. I only know this because my first attempt at a cache was near the actors' entrance … Continue reading 156. Albany, Shackleford County →

This county occupies another interesting subset that I've only recently noticed: seats that, with the county name, form the name of a person. This seems to be a rarefied category, occupied by Anson Jones and Gail Borden. I'm sure Dr. Paint Rock Concho must be sad to hear that he (or possibly she—I don't want … Continue reading 155. Anson, Jones County →

How did I end up here again? I said I was never coming back! It's all New Mexico's fault! I'd make a joke about returning to the 80's, but I can't actually see the city because it's the middle of the night. I only took two shots while I was here, though. That flag is … Continue reading Scenic Midland, Jewel of the Permian →

Getting this photograph turned out to be more difficult than you might think. Why? Because… Who brings their family to the county courthouse to practice a family dance routine? Seriously? I tried to be as surreptitious as I could be, snapping shots where I could without them in it, but I knew eventually someone would … Continue reading 154. Lubbock, Lubbock County →

Welcome to the hometown of the one and only Jimmy Dean! Grrrr! What's with all these trees! How am I supposed to get good photographs with all these trees in the way? Why should your attempts to cool and green your landscape interfere with my transitory aesthetic needs? At least you make up for it … Continue reading 153. Plainview, Hale County →

The name of G.W. Littlefield is incredibly familiar to me. He was a huge patron of the University of Texas, where there are still buildings named after him and his family. At one point, when the State wouldn't fund it for reasons, he and one of his rivals funded the entire University for two years … Continue reading 152. Littlefield, Lamb County →

I'm not a James McMurtry fan, but I know his magnum opus and it was cranking when I pulled up to the courthouse.  That song is one of those weird things because I had always associated it with Robert Earl Keen for some reason and it was years before I realized Keen re-recorded it a … Continue reading 151. Levelland, Hockley County →