It was nice seeing a friend who attends Taylor’s Immanuel Lutheran Church while at the grocery store today.   So tonight is a good time to post recent photographs taken there just a few evenings ago.   This beautiful church rests a hair’s breadth from the Samsung Semiconductor plant site, but when you’re standing  on their grounds you don’t even know it’s there.    Good neighbors give one another good space.

Photographs from daily walks this week in Taylor.   Perhaps they’re becoming tiresome, but for  a while they’ll get posted, even if nobody bothers to look.   It’s therapy, friends.

A layer of clouds joined Taylor’s sunrise on Saturday morning,  a 30-second stop on the way to Georgetown.

Coverage of “No Kings” demonstrations today in Williamson County, Texas.   Wasn’t sure there would be a post here, but the opening photograph, in Taylor,  prompted this one.  His sign spoke volumes.   In case you don’t recall, or know, this five decade career is photojournalism.  Perhaps more on that later.  Most of these were in downtown Taylor, where about 300 people showed up. A kitten named Gigi was present with her human.  A couple, presenting an opposing view, was heckled quite a lot, but they have every right to be there.   The last one was in Georgetown, where a couple conducted their own quiet vigil in front of the San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

About 600 people took part in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s this morning at Southwestern University in Georgetown.  Most photographs are self-explanatory, except for the colorful flowers.   Purple indicates participants have lost someone, blue means you are living with the disease, yellow denotes someone who supports or cares for someone with Alzheimer’s and orange indicates you support the cause.   The goal is for a white flower, which means a cure has been found.

The Granger High School Lions played their first football  game (homecoming)   against a team from Iola, Texas on their new field tonight.  A new Secondary School isn’t quite ready for occupancy yet, but the football field is looking good.   A few photographs are included here. A two-month-old enjoyed a nap on dad’s shoulders.  He’s not ready for football quite yet.

Perhaps made clear through the years, but evening photography is a passion.   Among the best places to practice this craft is in downtown Granger, Texas.   A favorite structure, along West Davilla Street, is the circa-1909 SPJST Hall, offered in the opening photograph.  Is the hall still for sale?   In the past, this stretch of road downtown was mostly free of vehicles, but a popular watering hole and restaurant now fills the street with cars and trucks.   A friend, however, mentioned the road was  less populated on Tuesday and Wednesday, days when the restaurant is closed.   These photos are from Wednesday night.   Also downtown is the Granger National Bank building.  The east side of that structure is being transformed into a museum.    And just before the railroad tracks, another building has windows adorned with happy sights.   You’ll probably see more evening work as the days grow shorter.

Holland is a community of a little over 1100 residents in Bell County, Texas.   The last visit there was a couple of years ago. These are from Tuesday evening.   It’s 22 miles north of our home in Taylor.   The community was established in 1881.   Small towns are enchanting.   Since the last outing there, an Italian restaurant, Svizzero, has opened.  It seems quite popular with residents.   The old bank building, opened in 1905, draws the cameras in every time.   It’s quite elegant.  Small Texas towns, any small towns, are little treasures.

Occasionally these moments just pop up.   While photographing another subject in Coupland late last week, the setting sun demanded attention.    It’s nice when that happens.

The Georgetown Pride Festival, coordinated by Georgetown PFLAG, was held Saturday at Wellspring United Methodist Church.  Several attendees gave a positive nod to the Williamson County Sun for its interest and coverage.    One gentleman, who attended with his wife, offered some of the performers rides in his replica of a 1929 Ford Model A.    The couple holding the Transgender Pride flags are the pastors at Wellspring.