Oh, how cool is this?

This site has USGS aerial photos and maps for much of the country, and it’s searchable.

Here’s Cowboy’s house.

It’s the funny foot-shaped plot in the middle. Straight north of where the buildings are shown will be the little pasture, and that’s where my garden is now. The bare area in the photo is already equipment yard. The dark spots are the eucalyptus trees. South of the buildings is where the arena and horse barn are going. The west side of the plot is in cotton now, for the last year, and will be fenced pasture next year.

Here’s my house, although it’s marked wrong. I’m the next one to the east. Yes, it’s a little town, but I’d rather live in this one.

This is where I grew up. None of those roads on the far west side of the photo were there when we were kids. That park was just barely a park, and west of it was a giant abandoned vineyard that we used to play in.

And here’s work.