Lone Star Back Roads

10/27/2026

Here's a better photo of Immanuel Lutheran Giddings from Sunday morning... shouldn't have just taken the first one outta the camera! This was taken maybe ten minutes after the other one, after the fog had faded away and the sunrise had spread out into the sky a little more.

10/26/2026

FINALLY got my photos from Wendish Fest done. I missed a lot of stuff this year. Might have to borrow Calvin's (from the late, great Calvin and Hobbes comic strip) duplicator before next year...

10/25/2026

There was a little fog out this morning that faded away as the sun rose...

10/03/2026

I'm quite behind... I still have to process my photos from Wendish Fest last Sunday, plus now I have a stack of photos from the spending the afternoon at the Dime Box Homecoming Festival this afternoon.

For the time being, I offer this glimpse of the stick horse race at Wendish Fest. I missed getting focus right, but I love this photo!

09/28/2026

When the Wendish Fest crowds have gone home for the day...

08/21/2026

06/29/2026

Another beautiful afternoon for a ball game... the Serbin Jackrabbits came out on top of the Weimar Vets - final score was 14-3.

06/23/2026

This was one of our stops yesterday... The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin in New Braunfels. This building, constructed in 1851, is the earliest extant Lutheran church building in Texas. It was originally located in the community of Neighborsville (which was absorbed by New Braunfels before World War II. The St. Martin's congregation seems to have lasted into the early 1900s, though I haven't yet been able to find anything definitive about when it disbanded.

06/22/2026

We took a ride on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway and visited a couple of the San Antonio missions yesterday afternoon.

Unfortunately, the SA&AP doesn't pass Go, so I didn't collect $200. I did, however, collect some photos.

06/21/2026

A few photos from the Annual Saint Michael's Lutheran Church Picnic in Wi******er...