Told ya, another short road trip

This time to Beaumont to photograph the courthouse there. We've passed through Beaumont many a time; however, most of the time it was pulling a trailer so very unwieldly to drive down through the center of town. The one time we were 'unattached' so to speak, it was raining. So today with nothing else planned on the horizon, we set forth taking a circuitous route instead of the usual I-10. It was interesting, but hardly a road we will venture forth on again.

Passing through Liberty on the way, we stopped to take a new photo of the Liberty County courthouse there as last time it was a very dull, relating to the sky, day. This is the 7th courthouse to sit on this square since the original was built in 1831. We next drove on down the road to Beaumont, the county seat of Jefferson County.





Before stopping for lunch at our favorite restaurant, Pappadeaux Seafood, I saw a sign for the Beaumont Botanical Gardens. So we made that our last stop of the day before heading on home. We took I-10 home listening to the breathtaking, literally, Astros v Reds game. When we tuned in it was the 7th inning and the game was tied at 0-0. Fortunately, in the top of the 10th, Lance Berkman hit a 2 run double to put the Astros ahead 2-0 and our closer shut down the Reds in the bottom of the 10th giving the Astros a face-saving win. The previous 2 days they had lost 15-6 and 12-2.