§ Accidental Randomness...

Randomness One
Oftentimes I'm driving or walking and see something I'd consider rare, or an oddity of sorts....if I can, I photograph them and save them in hopes of using the item in a blog post on occasion. These following are nothing but occasional, fluky, accidental randomness. The first one has a bit of historical, geographical significance. It's called a zero milestone.

The Bronze plaque reads:
"Zero Milestone Corpus Christi Texas Nineteen Thirty One"

These stones [or sometimes the central post office building] are used to measure distance...miles from certain cities, or within the city itself. When you check distance between two cities, on maps or Google mileage check, the milestones come into use.  The most famous one in the world is probably the "All Roads Lead to Rome" marker: Milliarium Aureum ("Golden Milestone") of the Roman Empire, which in part, still exists today. The milestone in our nation's capital is near the white house; often overlooked. Read more HERE

Randomness Two

A tree grows in Corpus...

This gnarled growth of a small tree in a park caught my eye one day recently. This park used to be heavily wooded, but the city crews have been out there with a clean-up vengeance, and now, from the park path, you can spot this crooked tree easily!

Oso Bay in Background

Randomness Three

This unusual photo was taken intentionally. At the Packery Channel Park and Jetty, you can park your vehicle in a large lot and walk the paved pathway to the end of the jetty all parallel to the boat channel where sportsmen are spotted fishing from the banks, or taking their boats out to the Gulf. And, at the parking facility, there are covered benches. The covered areas have port holes on each side. While I was sitting from a long walk to cool down this past summer from the heat of the day before I got in the car with the A/C on, I viewed from the portal this...A string of the covered areas giving this swirled 'illusion'. The 'swirls' are from several, lined, individual bench kiosks...

Mustang Island Packery Channel
Parking Area

Randomness Four

...by a Long Stretch!!

A couple of pictures of the JFK Causeway and Crossing from Padre Island looking toward the city of Corpus Christi. I cross this at least three times a week or more to go birding on the islands - Mustang Island and Padre Island.

Top view [My home is clear on the far horizon!]
I then cut off the highway and used the inter-coastal turnaround
to get a view from underneath the bridge crossing
only to have to get back on the causeway and climb again before dropping
down into the waterway and paddling home [kidding]!!

Randomness Five


At one of the historical cemeteries in town I spotted this very damaged palm tree.
Woodpeckers make it a home/nesting spot.
The 2nd one is also a palm tree camouflaged with a straight and narrow light fixture.

Randomness Six

The last one for this post [I have many other random photos for a future post] is one of the several covered gazebos along the "other" side of Oso Bay. You may recall I mention Hans Suter Refuge/Park where I walk the trail and check out the bird life on the water and along the paths. Well, these gazebos are on the OTHER side of the bay near and on the university grounds. The path is lighted for nighttime safety AND the gazebos are also lighted. They're strategically placed throughout the long paved walkway for optimal viewing of the bay waters. Many use this [mostly students, but it's open for public use]...while many joggers, bikers and walkers I encounter along the way. You can exit the path and the gazebos and walk the shoreline if the tide is right.

The Bay is in front of the lone tree beyond the yucca plant
and the
campus and Gulf of Mexico is behind the row of trees