El Paso: Sunset Heights on Prospect and Yandell

Entrance to Sunset Heights via Yandell, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

October 2016

One October day, I struck out for a visit to Segundo Barrio. On my way there and on my way back, I catalogued some of the architectural sweets on Prospect and Yandell Streets in my neighborhood, Sunset Heights.

On my way down in the morning, I took Prospect Street.

On Yandell Street, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

Oh, how I love the building above. Its low-to-the-ground profile pleases me, its brick-red color cheers and warms me, like thick chili with beans in the fall. The taupe highlights satisfy. The park benches, the sculptured trees soften angles. This is a human abode. It is a place that recognizes the spirit in us.

On Prospect Street, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

On the way back home in the afternoon, I came up Prospect.

On Prospect Street, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

There are houses that impose. 

On Prospect Street, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

They are handsome.

I love them, too.

A slide show below of Sunset Heights. 

All of my posts related to Sunset Heights here.

El Paso: The Yandell Christ

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

El Paso is a bowl of eye candy with its murals, varied architectures, daytime and nighttime vistas of the mountains, the sister cities, the pendulous moon.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

The first time I saw the jumbo, three-dimensional Christ on a wall on East Yandell, my mouth may have fallen open a bit as I stared while driving by, exhaling a long "wahhhhhhhh" of admiration.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

The site is the La Fe (Faith) Health Center on the corner of Brown and East Yandell. The artist is Cesar Inostroza.

Muralist Cesar Inostroza, El Paso, Texas. Source: Talent Pages.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

I look at the mural section above and, frankly, I get angry. I get angry because the mainstream political chatter never recognizes the power that fused cultures bring to the United States - the respect for one's current patriotic home and for one's heritage home, the bedrock connections to family, community, and faith. The artistic symbols such as those above - the flags, a father and daughter, religious affiliation - are everywhere. Everywhere. We. Are. All. Americans.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

Yandell Christ, El Paso, Texas. February 2017.

Do you think Christ gives a fuck about a wall?