Summer Vacation in Texas

Well, we are down in Texas again visiting my Mom and sisters and famillies, so it is time for playing with photography again. We met up at a Middle eastern/Meditteranean restaurant here....



and then set off to find fun things to photograph in the city.

We wandered around a bit and noticed this sign in a store window. Hmmm.



The Hong Kong City Mall was full of wonderful, exciting and even silly objects. Here is the exterior to the big market. It was full of planters of lucky bamboo.



The interior was gigantic! There was SO much food. Tanks of living sea food, counters full of fish, fresh fruit, large bins of jackfruit, packaged foods of all kinds.
In the food section we saw these interesting pumpkin seeds.



In case you didn't get a good look at the pumpkins, here is a close up.



This reminded me a lot of things I had seen in cheap souvenir store windows in Japan.



Of course there were many items to remind us of China (even though most of the stores and items were actually Vietnamese.) These lanterns were hanging near the entrance.



There were housewares, ceramics, brass items and stools. It was fun walking up and down the aisles and looking at all the stuff.



If you look carefully you might recognize someone coming through the brass aisle.



Here is my favorite picture. There were many places with all kinds of devotional statues.



I wonder what we will see today.