So we have returned back to Lake Conroe for another stay. As we mentioned, we are going back and forth from Lake Conroe outside of Houston to Medina Lake outside of San Antonio. We were going to go to the Gulf be decided against that due to cost. We were lucky that we cancelled because this weekend a major storm is hitting in the Corpus Christi/Brownsville area.
We, of course, had the weekend to do something. Many things are still closed so we decided to look again at murals. The one thing we found though on the side of the freeway was the Eclectic Menagerie Park where on the edge of the Texas Pipe and Supply Yard – 108 acre – sits an open-aired public museum. Numerous handmade metal sculptures by local and famous artists, handpicked by the Rubensteins’, line the edge of the yard along 288 South and Bellfort St. The collection began many years ago when Jerry Rubenstein, Chairman of the Board for Texas Pipe & Supply, purchased a hippo sculpture from a statuary in El Campo, TX and placed it on the edge of the pipe yard.
We hope you enjoyed seeing what they put on the side of the highways in Houston.
