A Houston Rainy Morning Photo Tour in 2019 began with Dr. Tom Sloan’s invitation to welcome Van Gogh’s Show to the Museum of Fine Arts. Here, the show’s marquis and a pair of pedestrians glide by the car window.It rained the next morning, igniting reflections in the brick along Texas Avenue in front of the 1913 Rice Hotel built on the site of the former Capitol Building of the Republic of Texas. Closed in 1977, The Rice was renovated as apartments and reopened in 1998, says Wikipedia.A commuter train slowed as it passed “The Home of Easy Credit.”
Commuter Train rides are free.It’s a good place to begin another day, he said.The rain stopped. We stopped for coffee.Leaving the business district, here’s a drive-by frame from a neighborhood where home owners fence off their place while the dog keeps watch.This is the Port of Houston on the Intercoastal Waterway, also fenced off.Southern Living and Tom Sloan, MD, agree that people should eat at The Original Ninfa’s, a place staking the trade-mark claim, “The Best Mexican food in Texas since Texas was in Mexico.”The way a cowboy regularly rides out checking fence, life beyond home and his medical practice regularly sends Dr. Sloan exploring Texas backroads. His photos reflect an affinity for the hallowed ground of lonely places.
