A butterfly at the Cockrell Butterfly Center, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas.
The USS Texas, commissioned in 1914, saw action in both World Wars, including D-Day and at Iwo Jima. After being decommissioned in 1947, she was permanently moored adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel near the San Jacinto Monument to act as a museum ship.
A storm approaches the Galveston Seawall, which was built between 1902 and 1904 as protection from future hurricanes after the devastation brought about from the 1900 hurricane that killed at least 6,000 people on the island.