Pecos River Crossing, US 90, between Comstock and Langtry, Texas

I leave the crowded, humid world of prosaic Texas in my exhaust for the wider, drier Texas of poetic imagination.

Catarina Hotel (1926), Catarina, Texas

The South Texas fracking boom has breathed new life into famed "ghost town," Catarina. New owners have reopened the old Catarina Hotel as Palm Suite and Inn.

Evening at La Parida Banco, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Mission, Texas

Blushing clouds and purple shadows – electric cicada hum and distant thunder – mesquite fingers stir the creamy evening breeze – a resaca fades to sleep