Johnson City, Texas.

I saw one of the placards typically mounted in front of historical sites across the street (East Ladybird Lane) from the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Visitor Center and Park Headquarters. Stepping across the street, I learned the home referenced was the boyhood home of Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.

Lyndon Johnson’s family relocated from a rural farm near Stonewall, Texas, to Johnson City, approximately fourteen miles (22 km) away, in September 1913, shortly after his fifth birthday. Johnson City remained their primary residence for the next twenty-four years.

The family at the time of the move consisted of Lyndon’s father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson, young Lyndon himself, and his sisters, Rebekah and Josefa. Over the years, two more children, Lucia and Sam Houston Johnson, were born in their Johnson City home.

The formative family life Lyndon experienced during his childhood and adolescence in this house significantly shaped the man who would later become the thirty-sixth President of the United States. I will share additional LBJ National Historical Park photos in a future Travel Tuesday.

The home was restored to appear as it did when LBJ and his family lived there. Materials and techniques consistent with the original construction and furnishings were employed to maintain the home’s authentic 1920s appearance. Following a three-year restoration project involving historians, architects, carpenters, stonemasons, and numerous local businesses, the Boyhood Home was completed in 1973 and opened to the public. The source of the historical information is the NPS website here.

About the photo: Standing near the placard, I framed the home with my Samsung S23U cell phone. After downloading the image to my computer, I used Lightroom Classic to straighten the perspective on the house’s walls. From there, I transferred it to Luminar Neo to tweak the Accent AI tool, then applied some structure to the landscape without creating false texture in the clouds.

The Accent AI tool has masking, so I applied the tool’s AI mask to determine the elements in the image. I then selected the sky and inverted the mask so everything but the sky was selected. I added just a bit of structure to the landscape. In all, it was less than a five-minute tweak. You can click on the image to view it in 2K HD on my Flickr site.

I encourage fellow bloggers to create their own Cellpic Sunday posts. I never have a specific topic for this feature, and the only rules are that the photo must be captured with a cell phone, iPad, or another mobile device… If you have an image from a drone or even a dashcam, that’s also acceptable. The second rule is to link your challenge response to this post or leave a comment here with a link to your post in the comment. Oh, you don’t have to post it on a Sunday.

John Steiner