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)

Photo of the Day 419

Boot Track Cafe, Mentone, Texas, 2000

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

The town of Mentone, Texas—population 15, more or less—supports a leisurely business at the Boot Track Cafe. The ramshackle restaurant with the lipstick-red posts sets out bottles of hot sauce as centerpieces and serves about 25 cheeseburgers per day.

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