Suburb-to-be, Dallas, TX

Another suburb to be, its lines drawn and merely awaiting filling in with houses. The silhouette of this one for some reason makes me think of the shape of an assault rifle, with the stock on the right, trigger below, and muzzle protruding to the left.

Pac-Man Lives Here, Dallas, TX

For whatever reason, I find the maze-like lines of this particular suburb to be strongly evocative of Pac-Man.

Endless parking, Stadium near Dallas, TX

Endless lines of parking spilling out around a stadium near Dallas, the inner regions conventional parking lot, but the outer regions appearing to be park-on-grass regions for overflow crowds.

Empty housing pads, North of Dallas, TX

Coming into Dallas, a land of exurb where the pads for houses have been scraped clean and roadways marked out, yet no construction has yet begun.

Red crop checkerboard, Northern Texas

A checkerboard of many fields of these red crops, holding different shades and textures from square to square. This is perhaps the most peculiar agricultural sight that I have ever yet encountered in my travels.

Red crops, Northern Texas

Different fields are carved out differently, with breaks and patches of no clear origin in addition to the ones where the watercourses are clearly digging too deeply for cultivation.

Red crops, Northern Texas

Another set of fields full of the mysterious red crops of Northern Texas, this one showing powerful topological striations in the field, almost like terraced rice fields, except that I cannot imagine there is enough water here for such a thing.