Showing posts with label Kent County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kent County. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Jayton Gothic



You don’t have to be a trained accident investigator to decipher this one – a curve, three teenagers, New Year’s Day.

Two crosses are narrow white metal, but the third is different: heavy wood, curvy at the ends, with a single name carved into it. The wood is starting to weather, and the once-crisp letters are softer.

Behind the crosses. black, bare tree limbs claw against the angry sky.

FM 1228
Kent County, Texas

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Clairemont

The second least-populated county in the state just got a little smaller.
The cross is made from cedar posts that could be stolen from the fence across the road. Red zip ties hold plastic ivy and an old wreath to the arms.
US 380
Kent County, Texas