The Marfa Lights Viewing Center
is 9 miles west of the city
on Route 90.
Since the 1880s, people have reported mysterious lights dance on the horizon in the southern sky southeast of Marfa. The lights have been seen randomly throughout the year. Eric and I hope to see them tonight.
It has a spacious deck where
visitors view the lights.
This plaque commemorates
the people who worked to
create this Viewing Center.
Eric admires a
Soaptree Yucca.
There's at least six plaques here. One details Marfa's history. Marfa was founded in 1883 as a watering stop for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. The Marfa area was very busy in the 1940s. The US Government constructed an air field to train Army Air Corps pilots, stationed Chemical Warfare Brigades in the area and built a German Prisoner of War Camp. Marfa's Hotel Paisano was used as a movie set in the James Dean movie, Giant.
Nobody crosses
the fence line.
Eric plucks a seed pod from
the spike of a smaller
Soaptree Yucca.
Soaptree Yucca.
Showing his prize.
The pod goes in his
pocket for closer
examination later.
It's time to eat dinner and wait for the sun to set. I hope we see the Marfa Lights!
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