Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

A wind-turbine farm near the city of Snyder in Scurry County, Texas

A young one gets a bit of nourishment at the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch near Venus, Texas

Abandoned motel, and possibly one furnishing from it, in Monahans, southwest of Odessa in Ward County, Texas

Abandoned buildings and water tower in what is now a ghost town named Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Accountant's office at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Accordionist Valina Polka practices on a balcony at Sengelmann's Restaurant, outside the annual Texas Polka Festival in Schulenburg, Texas

Acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei designed this modernist home in the Westover section of Fort Worth, Texas

Advertising sign featuring a Texas longhorn on the wall of Dirty Martin's Place, a hamburger joint in Austin, Texas

Advertising mural on Hardware store in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Advertising sign for Diana's Beauty Supply shop in downtown El Paso, Texas

Advance scouts head out from the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of Houston, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of Houston, Texas, with a bird's-eye view of Reliant Stadium, the city's primary rodeo and pro- football facility

Aerial view in 2014 of sprawling Houston, Texas, in the midst of an energy boom

Aerial view in 2014 of energy-storage tanks outside downtown Houston, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of the Houston Ship Channel and surrounding energy facilities in Houston, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of ribbons of freeways in bustling Houston, Texas

Aerial view in 2014 of Houston, Texas. City Hall is the small, older structure amid the downtown skyscrapers

Aerial view in 2014 of a residential section of sprawling Houston, Texas

American bison at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, 28005u

Aerial view showing two prominent featuresof Houston, Texas, in 2014: rampant development in energy sector, and multiple freeway ribbons of concrete

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, skyline in 2014

Aerial views of the Houston, Texas, 28005u (Wells Fargo Plaza)

Agricultural facility in Gaines County, Texas, in the peanut-and-cotton-growing country between Hobbs, New Mexico, and Seminole, Texas

Agricultural storage tanks in Fannin County in Northeast Texas

Agricultural storage containers near the town of Windom in Fannin County, Texas

Agricultural structures, one of them shaped like a milk bottle, in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

Agricultural storage array in Gonzales, Texas

Alley scene along the recreated "Boomtown USA" at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. The figure against the wall is an animatronic townsperson, down on his luck, who tells some of the story of the rip-snorting town

Albert Duran, an Asociacion de Charros de San Antonio member attending a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, month-long Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Alyssa Perez, a student at the the Academy of Careers and Technologies Charter School in San Antonio, Texas, models her creation exhibited in the "Hats Off to Fiesta!" event, sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures, as part of the month-long Fiesta San Anton

Alonzo Taylor, a homeless man in a low-income neighborhood of Dallas, Texas

Along with a profusion of spring azaleas, a sculpture of Diana, goddess of wild animals and the hunt, is the feature of the Diana Garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

Although this looks for all the world like a theater marquee, it is instead an unusually bold neon sign for a bank in Amarillo, Texas

American Indians' quarters and a courtyard oven at Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas

Annabelle Davis gets a taste of mechanical-bull riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

An artistic, raised approximation of the Texas lone star at a Texas "welcome center" near the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and U.S. 83 in Laredo, Texas

An abandoned shoestore and adjacent structures in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas

An antique, collectibles, or junk store (take your pick) in the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

An American bison at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

An adorable donkey in a field in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas

An art installation in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

An art installation in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

An 1890s-vintage cemetery in Lajitas, a dusty, unincorporated town at the spot that separates Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park in southern Brewster County, Texas

An abandoned movie theater in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas

An artistic rock carving that highlights the many pictographs by native peoples found among the rocks in surrounding Terrell County, in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

An abandoned building clad in painted sheets of tin in Emory, the seat of Rains County in East Texas

An oil derrick in Webb County, Texas, north of Laredo

An Aztec calendar in Aztec Calendar Park on Myrtle Avenue in downtown El Paso, Texas. It is a replica of the original in the National Museum of Mexico in Mexico City

An expansive, low-slung tree outside Schulenburg, Texas

An imaginative interpretation of the comics, radio, and TV character "The Lone Ranger," adapted, hat, mask, and all, for a Kickerz Coffee drive-through store in Tyler, Texas

An edible (or lickable) building, sort of, in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County of East Texas

An irrigation crawler on a farm field near Canyon in Randall County in the Texas panhandle

An early camp wagon outside the historic Stagecoach Inn in Burton, a town in Washington County, Texas

An oil refinery in Groves, Texas, near Port Arthur

An elegant stairway at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

An imaginative neon sign promoting Doc's Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas

An old "parking and storage" building in Laredo, Texas

An old gift shop in Sierra Blanca, made a virtual ghost town when the interstate highway bypassed it in Hudspeth County, Texas