A Magic Circle Called the Solitario, Part 10: Making the Scene at Tres Papalotes | Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas, USA
Location, location, location. This choice real estate opportunity and Trans-Pecos celebrity venue offers it all: architectural distinction coupled with an elegant simplicity of lifestyle. What's not to love?
Actually, this property, now part of the Texas park system, isn't for sale. Here I'm facing southeast, in the ghost town (or, more accurately, ghost mini-homestead) of Tres Papalotes. It's located on the eastern side of the Solitario's interior, along the Lefthand Shutup road about 1 mi (1`.6 km) south-southwest of the water gap cited in earlier photos of this series. Despite its minimal impact on urban civilization, it is a listed locality on Google Earth.
This non-town's lovely Spanish name translates as "Three Windmills"—but by the time I got there, only one, lacking its blades, remained. Its upper portion is visible above the shack's corrugated-metal roof.
Behind that windpump pylon is a low rocky spine exposing the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Tesnus Formation. And beyond that, a higher ridgeline topped by very notably folded beds of the Devonian Caballos Novaculite.
For more on this amazing locale, see the other photos and descriptions in my A Magic Circle Called the Solitario album.
A Magic Circle Called the Solitario, Part 10: Making the Scene at Tres Papalotes | Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas, USA
Location, location, location. This choice real estate opportunity and Trans-Pecos celebrity venue offers it all: architectural distinction coupled with an elegant simplicity of lifestyle. What's not to love?
Actually, this property, now part of the Texas park system, isn't for sale. Here I'm facing southeast, in the ghost town (or, more accurately, ghost mini-homestead) of Tres Papalotes. It's located on the eastern side of the Solitario's interior, along the Lefthand Shutup road about 1 mi (1`.6 km) south-southwest of the water gap cited in earlier photos of this series. Despite its minimal impact on urban civilization, it is a listed locality on Google Earth.
This non-town's lovely Spanish name translates as "Three Windmills"—but by the time I got there, only one, lacking its blades, remained. Its upper portion is visible above the shack's corrugated-metal roof.
Behind that windpump pylon is a low rocky spine exposing the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Tesnus Formation. And beyond that, a higher ridgeline topped by very notably folded beds of the Devonian Caballos Novaculite.
For more on this amazing locale, see the other photos and descriptions in my A Magic Circle Called the Solitario album.