Photo of the Day 441

Saddled Horse, Mentone, Texas, 2000

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A saddled horse stands in the tiny town of Mentone, Texas. Seat of Loving County, the least populated county in the lower 48 states, Mentone sits smack in the middle of furnace-hot desert with oceans of oil belowground and not much to speak of above.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "ZipUSA: Mentone, Texas," September 2000, National Geographic magazine)