Views of Marfa Texas 

The city of Marfa is located in the high desert with vast expanses of land and sky in all directions. Enjoy beautiful sunrises, sunsets and star gazing from this quiet locale. 
Marfa is a unique town that lives every day with reminders of the past, the comfort of the present and vision of the future. A small west Texas town sprung out of the desert due to the railroad forging west to California, Marfa was named in an unexpected moment of poetry when the railroad engineer asked his wife to "do the honors". How else could a three shack waterstop be given the unlikely name of a character in a Russian novel, "Brother Karmakov" by Doestoevsky. The naming seemed to forecast it's future as a place of mixed metaphor, mapping the unpredictable future.

Pure, limitless desert broken by the primordial peaks of a long ago submerged reef underlining the geological phenomenem of the upper Chihuahuan Desert. The only mountain range in Texas is actually the southern most tip of the Great Rocky Mountains extending north into Canada. The huge blanket of the night sky gives astronomers pristine viewing through state-of-the-art telescopes. The known and the unknown exist together with the inexplicable "Marfa Lights" dancing on the evening horizon of the desert edge.

The allure of "God's Country" brought modernist sculptor Donald Judd to place his monumental works in this pure environment. Now, artists, critics and scholars sit next to ranchers, law enforcement and churchgoers in the local restaurants. The food of a southern culture feeds the cultural fusion of citizens and visitors. Clearly, there is a moment of shared spirit when the magical sunsets bring the sky to all of our attention.

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