Someone on unpopularopinion mentioned making pasta with cola. In the interest of science, I thought I'd give it a quick whirl.1wk ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/StupidFood
And March is Monthly Appreciation Awareness Month, for those who need to know which month to appreciate various groups1mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/clevercomebacks
Harder. Must cope harder. Dig deeeeep for that copium!2mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/insanepeoplefacebook
The limbs they sell into handbags, leather shoes and beef at McDonald's3wk ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/insanepeoplefacebook
Valley of the Gods, became part of Bears Ears National Monument in 2016, removed by Trump in 2017, restored to Bears Ears in 2021 by Biden1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/NationalPark
Sorry, too busy getting ready for that 34th Benghazi investigation hearing...3yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/PoliticalHumor
Photo from the last total solar eclipse over Texas, courtesy of the Texas State Parks History and Archeology Department on Facebook1wk ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texashistory
Snapshots of Texas: So you think you've hiked all the trails in the Big Bend Region? But have you hiked out to...The Desk? Alpine, TX Oct. 20221yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: All that remains are cement foundations from the Crystal City Concentration Camp from 1943-1948, housing Japanese and German POWs as well as many Japanese deported from Latin America (mostly Peru). Most of the land that made up the camp is used by the city's high school today.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
In opposition to Confederate Heroes Day, I present: The Treue der Union Monument, erected in Comfort, TX in 1866 to honor conscientious objectors to the conscription draft of 1862 who were massacred while fleeing to Mexico during the Battle of Nueces. 36-star flag permanently flies at half-staff.2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Souvenirs for sale at the Boquillas Canyon overlook in Big Bend. Residents from Boquillas on the other side of the river set up their displays daily, and payment is on the 'honor system'.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Inside the Gonzales County Old Jail, now turned into a museum (only two dollars!)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Bike rack at an art museum. Where only 10% of the rack could be used to secure the bike with a lock and chain.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/CrappyDesign
Map showing all the counties that Beto O'Rourke will visit during his July-September Drive for Texas swing through smaller communities across the state (and there will still be almost 2 months left to visit more places after that!)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Texas at 9am - nearly entirely covered in white frosting (mmmmm....frosting....)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Toroweap Overlook at Grand Canyon, Monday afternoon. Probably the best overlook on the Northern Rim, with very limited, controlled access after driving 90 miles on 4WD roads through Parashant. 10/10 would do it again.6mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/NationalPark
Snapshots of Texas: Lincoln Park in Freeport, originally in the middle of a thriving neighborhood dating back to the days of segregation, but today surrounded by empty fields where houses once stood, 95% of the land bought up by developers to expand the port, with only a few holdouts remaining.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
1936 Map of proposed National Parks and Monuments in California1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/NationalPark
Snapshots of Texas: Abandoned homestead off US-380 near Grassland, TX1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Jokes on him - everyone knows corduroy is better than plain denim!2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/PoliticalHumor
Snapshots of Texas: What remains of Mary Allen Seminary in Crockett, the first higher education school open to Black women in 1886, and in 1924 became the first college with all-Black faculty, before finally closing its doors in 1972.11mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
US consumer debt per person, adjusted for inflation and population (in 2023 dollars) - how what we owe has changed over time [OC]3mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/dataisbeautiful
Snapshots of Texas: The World's Largest Swimming Pool outside of Cisco, Texas, at one time one of the hottest getaway spots in all of north Texas.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Hot June day on the Llano River south of Fredericksburg10mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: The World's Littlest Skyscraper in Wichita Falls - 480 x 216 x 120. Built in 1919, remote investors were swindled by intentionally not indicating the units on the planned blueprints were in inches, not feet. Free to visit through antique store next door!1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Quiz for HEB shoppers: One is $1.62, the other the next shelf over is $2.68. Can you spot the difference?1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Not your average deer on the side of the road (about a mile outside Bandera)2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Bull Canyon dinosaur tracks in the snow at the edge of a cliff at 8500 feet, east of Moab1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/geology
Snapshots of Texas: At the South Rim in Big Bend, looking east to show the drop from the sky island at over 7000 feet in elevation to valley floor at around 3000 feet, the distant mountains in Mexico on the horizon.2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Hello, 9-1-1? I would like to report a murder at Fox News Studios tonight...10mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/PoliticalHumor
Snapshots of Texas: The barbeque 'show pit' at the Salt Lick in Round Rock [OC]2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Location of the original Whataburger in Corpus Christi (in the parking lot of a modern Whataburger)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Spotted in the window of a semi-abandoned building in Putnam, TX. A reminder that America's enemies walk among us.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Sinclair Gas Station in Snyder, TX - only 29 cents a gallon!1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Former service station in Glenrio, Texas, straddling the New Mexico border along Route 662yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Kickapoo Cavern State Park, one of the least visited parks in the entire state system. If you like solitude, this place has it in spades.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Outside the American Windmill Museum in Lubbock1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Climbing up to the sky islands at Guadalupe Mountains National Park1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Deep beneath the catacombs entering the hidden underworld of Houston, at Buffalo Bayou Cistern2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: La Linda International Bridge, the most remote official border crossing in Texas, opened in 1964 for a cross-border mining operation, closed since 1997. Outside of the tourist crossing at Boquillas, it was the only crossing for 400 miles over the Rio Grande.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Quartermaster Formation exposed with gypsum veins at Caprock Canyon State Park [OC]2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/geology
Snapshots of Texas: The Texas Theater in Sweetwater, opened in 19351yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Fort Worth Water Gardens, little changed from the post-apocalyptic days of Logan's Run and Lathe of Heaven.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend, where the Rio Grande carves a narrow gap through the mountains, rising 1500 feet above the water's surface (Mexico on the left, United States on the right) [OC]2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Deep behind the piney curtain of Angelina National Forest along a bend in the Neches River lines the crumbling, overgrown ruins of the Aldridge Sawmill, operated from 1905 to 1923, and at the time the largest operation in Texas capable of 125k board-feet of lumber per day.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: A Tribute to Courage, 60-foot-tall cast concrete sculpture of one of the larger-than-life fathers of Texas, Sam Houston, off I-45 in Huntsville. Texas general, president (twice), senator and governor, but also a troubled man with flaws, too.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas - Hot Tubbin' in the Rio Grande! 105 degree geothermal springs, where tourists have been soaking in the 'healing properties' of the mineral water for over a century, at the Hot Springs District in Big Bend National Park. (Mexico just feet away on the other river bank)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: The Sierra Madera Astrobleme in Pecos County, bisected by US-385. An eight-mile-wide crater from a meteor strike, one of the largest identifiable craters on Earth - in the middle of the photo is the central rebound structure rising 800 feet even after 100 million years.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Found this place completely by happenstance. Ro-Ho's Pork and Bread, serving tortas ahogadas. Maybe a block north of where the old, closed original Fuddrucker's is located.2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/sanantonio
Rolling up my loose change to take down to the bank...how in tarnation am I supposed to fit fifty of these in such a tiny roll?2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/coins
Spiral someone put together at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument on the edge of Las Vegas, August 2023.7mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/NationalPark
Snapshots of Texas: Little known Pena Colorado Park, a few miles south of Marathon, located near where the army established Camp Pena Colorado between 1879 and 1893. A reliable watering hole along the Comanche Trail, now a county park with WPA dam and spring-fed lake with lots of ducks.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: The Treue der Union Monument in Comfort, established in 1866 to commemorate the 34 German-immigrant Texans who were killed in the Nueces Massacre (61 men refused to sign loyalty oath to the Confederacy, fled towards Mexico and were overtaken near the border)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) just outside of Bandera. Introduced to the Edwards Plateau region in 1932, it is estimated there are approx. 20,000 in the wild.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Trump ate two hamberders for lunch. Two is also the number of times he has been impeached. Coincidence?1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/insanepeoplefacebook
Snapshots of Texas: Inside the Texas Cotton Gin Museum, an operational gin since 1914 located in Burton1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Is it National Use-Up-Your-Leftovers-in-a-Jell-O-Salad Week already?1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/StupidFood
T-Shirt from China - wasn't aware that to go from South Florida to Central Florida you have to drive through Lowa.2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/mapgore
Snapshots of Texas: Thurber, Texas, population: 8. At one time the biggest 'company town' in Texas, topping out at 10,000 residents, built on coal mining, which was also its demise with the discovery of oil. Little remains except the 1908 Smokestack, a few restaurants, cemetery and scattered ruins.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Spotted in the wild on twatter this morning in a discussion about Juneteenth.10mo ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/TheRightCantMeme
The sausage platter at the oldest continuously-operating restaurant in the state of Texas since 1866: Scholz Garten2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Would you like cheese with that? Sure, how much cheese you got?1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/StupidFood
Snapshots of Texas: Statue in the park across from the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, TX.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Along the trail at the least-visited park in the system, Kickapoo Caverns State Park.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: San Marcos Springs, the second most active natural springs in the state. For 70 years this was a tourist attraction known as Aquarena Springs, with swimming mermaids, Ralph the Swimming Pig and glass-bottomed boats. Now it is part of Texas State Univ. as the Meadows Center.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Where the 1st shot was fired in the revolution against the Mexican army as they tried to take a small cannon from the Texians near Goliad, October 2, 1835. Near the small town of Cost, a mile down the road from a large bronze & granite monument on the highway - Come and Take It!2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: The Helium Times Column Monument in Amarillo, created in 1968 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the element.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Where the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed on March 2, 1836, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Republic of Texas2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Luna's Jacal on Old Maverick Road. Where Gilberto Luna (1839-1947) arrived in 1916 and raised a large family, before this became part of Big Bend National Park.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
With the new 2022 quarters appearing in circulation, I thought it might be interesting to re-visit the artwork it was based on - a marble bust based on the 1785 plaster by Jean-Antoine Houdon, now on display at The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/coins
Population of Texas communities circa 1850 (based on what official documented records exist)2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texashistory
Snapshots of Texas: The Big Texan, where if you can eat a 72 oz steak with all the fixin's in under an hour, it's free!1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Summertime stop at San Pedro Point along the Devil's River - Texas' cleanest and least accessible river. [OC]2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
Snapshots of Texas: Old Zoo Trail, just north of Stamford. When oil was booming in the twenties and thirties, a small city zoo was built on a hill near the lake outside of town, where families could picnic and spend the day. (Many more photos in comments)1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
The White in Red, White and Blue: Counties in the United States with the highest percentage of people identifying as white alone, 2021 [OC]1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/MapPorn
Texas lake/reservoir levels - a tale of two states. Lake levels east are just fine, but lakes out west are drying up fast.1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
The largest ranch in the United States from 1885 to 1912 - The XIT Ranch, covering 3 million acres over 200 x 30 miles of ten panhandle counties.2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texashistory
And we would have gotten away with it, too! If it wasn't for the damn, pesky kids!1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/PoliticalHumor
Average Price of Gasoline in the United States, Adjusted for Inflation, 1995 to 2022 [OC]1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/dataisbeautiful
Percent US Population Living in an Urban Area, as defined by US Census (National average: 80.8%)2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/MapPorn
Snapshots of Texas: Devil's River State Natural Area, one of the most remote and least visited sites in the state park system2yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/texas
