But I did take a few nice shots tonight – they may be the last, however.

This little town, between Temple and Waco and about 70 miles from Austin, has the misfortune of having its downtown literally bisected by Interstate 35. It’s bad enough that the towns were so small they had to get hitched in their nomenclature, but what kind of Moses-lite urban planner allowed this one to happen? To be fair, there are towns this size far from freeways that have deader downtowns, and this one is almost 100% inhabited with commerce, so perhaps it’s a maim and a scar but not a fatal blow to this little McLennan County hamlet.

Anyway, I’ve wondered about it since I was a kid, so I finally stopped and bought a candy bar there late last week. Now I can say I’ve seen the sights, I suppose. I feel for towns like this – it could have been the next Round Rock had things aligned ever so slightly askew from where they are now.

This is taken from the overpass (you can see my shadow to the left)

And there’s my car on the main street (Ranch Road 7)