The closest "bigger" city to Brady is San Angelo, a drive of about 70 miles. It is the home of Fort Concho, touted as the "best restored frontier fort in the USA". (It's NOT pictured - sorry, I forgot!) However... it's also the home of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts which has the best ceramics collection I've ever seen. The first two photos are part of their collection I just love. They're by artist Ruth Wilson from Brenham, TX and stand about two feet tall. (Sorry for the reflections - they were behind glass.) At the old gas station on the corner by the museum is an old VW completely covered in mosaic tile, even the wheels (John was quite taken with it.)In row 2 we have Panchita's tortilla factory where we picked up GREAT (you guessed it!) tortillas and homemade salsa with ZIPPPPP! The tortillas are delicious because they're probably made with lard. As you can see by the middle photo I took in the supermarket, the 25 pound buckets of lard are the most popular size.
The country between Brady and San Angelo is flaaaaaaaat! The first landscape photo is the country either before or after Wall. The next one is on the other side of Wall. (Sorry, I blinked when we went through Wall and I didn't get a photo.) They grow a LOT of cotton there assuming it rains which it hasn't in quite a while. As the country begins to transition to mesquite nearer Brady, there's a ranch called Buzzards Roost. (I just liked their gate.) The last photo I took for John's cousins John & Judy of Eden's auto body shop (J & J run one in NJ). For those who don't know about Eden, it's the geographic center of Texas. One more thing about the terraine in case you haven't already noticed, this part of the world gives Montana competition for the phrase "big sky country".
