Ernie Deats still uses the spurs his father gave him, a simple-looking pair with worn rowels, the spinning part used to prod a horse forward. Deats is a fourth-generation rancher. His great-grandfather settled near Dickinson in 1872. Photo by Kelsey Walling
A flock of gulls and black skimmers take flight as a fisherman uses a casting net near a sandbar in the East End Lagoon off Boddeker Road in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Austen Anderson, left, picks up plastic bottles during a beach clean-up by members of the Mountain Ocean Project at a beach near Seawolf Park in Galveston. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Galveston Artist Residency co-founder and director Eric Schnell walks through the main gallery, which features a new artist’s work every couple months and is a stop in Galveston’s ArtWalk. Photo by Kelsey Walling
The grand dining room at the Moody Mansion is available to rent for seated dinners. Chef Paul Mendoza, program director of culinary arts at Galveston College, and his students created a holiday menu inspired by notes Mary Moody Northen kept detailing her dinner parties at the mansion. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds