Well, it’s Saturday night and my week of vacation is coming to a close.  We weren’t able to take a trip this time so we did some things in the Houston area.  Here are some photos of what we saw:

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Our first stop is at the Houston Museum of Natural Science which is located a couple of miles south of Downtown as part of the Hermann Park complex that includes the zoo, golf course and outdoor theater.

Here is a view of the traffic circle at Hermann Park:

That structure on the left is the base of a statue of Sam Houston riding a horse.  I couldn’t get everything into this photo and thought the green grass was more interesting so Sam didn’t make the cut.

Here is the entrance to the museum:

One of the anchors or the Museum of Natural Science is the Cockrell Butterfly Center which is a tropical habitat housing an amazing array of butterfly species among appropriate tropical fauna.

I will be posting more later.  TTFN