After many years of driving around the country, I've wanted to do a small series on roadside memorials. These sad and solemn reminders that someone at one point was killed on the same road you are driving on are either well-kept and renewed often by the families or rundown and forgotten closure left behind. Of course, when I made the time to look for them, the wildflower season here in Texas covered many of them to the point you cannot see them at all. I remembered an area we drove through a few years back and decided to see what I could do there. Devil's Backbone, is the most haunted road in Texas. It is said to be haunted by Native Americans, Spanish Monks, Confederate soldiers, people who committed suicide, and the deceased from the many fatal car accidents along its twisted hills through this scenic portion of the Texas Hill Country. Not too far from Purgatory Road is a picnic area which has become what I see as an ever-evolving memorial to the deceased. A living artwork. The items left leave a small remnant of the lost loved ones along a scenic outlook nestled in prickly pear, juniper, and oak trees. Onlookers stop for a rest but walk into a solemn reminder of the past and not so far off deaths that have occurred amidst the nearby beauty.