No, it isn’t hot in Texas; and the cool night dews are falling,
And the katydids are chirping in the grass beside the pool;
And from out the moonlit distances the mockingbirds are calling,
And I know the days are hazy and the nights perfumed and cool.
From Longing for Texas by Judd Mortimer Lewis
Kyleigh Holle, HILCO EC: The Dallas skyline at night with car light trails.
Charles Baxter, CoServ: The Fort Davis Drug Store and Hotel.
Michele Tech, United Cooperative Services: Honky-tonk nights at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth.
Web Extra: Angie Birmingham, Nueces EC: Milky Way and Mars after dark from the North Padre Island beach, with a splash of light to illuminate the surf.”
Web Extra: Amy Buren, HILCO EC: “Watching the sky light up at the release of the sky lanterns.”
Web Extra: Angie Birmingham, Nueces EC: “I prefer to spend my nights out with nature capturing the Milky Way and the big, bright stars that Texas has to offer. This was taken in a cotton field off of Chapman Ranch Road in Corpus Christi.”
Web Extra: Jeremiah Terry, Bandera EC: “Midnight photo sessions with the galaxy, taken along the Llano River in Mason.”
Web Extra: Tina Webb, Bluebonnet EC: The 2020 National Finals Rodeo was held in Arlington.
Web Extra: John Fortune, Panola-Harrison EC: “A 32-minute exposure taken near midnight on December 12, 2020, over Goose Prairie on Caddo Lake near Karnack.”
Web Extra: Angie Lewis, Bailey County EC: Skyline.
Web Extra: Ted Morris, Victoria EC: “Spending a sibling weekend getaway in San Angelo found us having a good time in the House of Fifi DuBois listening to the Midnight River Choir.”
Web Extra: Laura Kay, Fannin County EC: “One night in Leonard during the deep freeze.”
Web Extra: Chris Miller, Bluebonnet EC: A temporary, site-specific sculpture installation in downtown Houston features roselike designs that are hand-colored MRIs of the human brain printed on silk and made into parasols.
