Overloaded patterns.

I just thought this fire escape along side the patterned bricks on this Downtown Houston building made a strange photo.
Too many designers these days are afraid to use broad swaths of pattern.
--steve buser

Houston, TX

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Sunset through the gun line

This is the traffic coming over the Calcasieu River bridge in Lake Charles,La as we head into the sunset and toward, Beaumont, TX.  You can seen them in this picture, because it is too dark, but the railings of the steep bridge are lined with crossed pistols (by one count there are 10,572 dueling pistols on the 6,600-foot bridge).
--steve buser

Lake Charles, Louisiana, Bridge

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Great Egret spends time in self reflection

A Great Egret, Ardea Albus, finds that fishing is a great time for self-reflection.  The shot is at Shangri La Botanical Gardens in Orange, TX

--steve buser

Great Egret, Ardea Albus, Texas, nature

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Circus Sabers

Linda and I were at the Shriners Circus today in Beaumont, TX, with our grandkids, Sullivan and Sophie. Here Sullivan holds his light saber and his sisters. It was a fun time, even for us old kids.

--steve buser

Circus, Texas, Beaumont

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Bird Brothers

Two birds not of-a-feather share an old stand out in the swamp of the Louisiana coast, near Texas.  I suppose both are envious of each other, the large egret is jealous of the gull's maneuvering ability and ability to get into tight spaces.  The gull would be jealous of the egrets sharp beak that allows it to stab larger prey in the water and its long legs which allow the egret to wade in good fishing grounds.

--steve buser

The splash has dashed

Summer where did you go?  Now the only wet is a miserable rain. 
This is the splash park in Groves, TX.  A well used park -- that in the laughing, running, splashing days of summer.

--steve buser

summer, kids

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Happy is the hovering heron

This is the "survey the waterfront" pose for a juvenile Tri-colored Heron poached on a cypress stump at the heronry off the I-10 at the Trinity River Bridge  -- east of Houston.
The  seems to be just sitting there thinking, but when a fish or other tasty treat swims by, he slowly crouches into an attack mode -- edging closer to the water and leaning closer.
--steve buser

heron, tri-colored, bird

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