Author-photographer Charles Garrett, who lives outside of Austin, has produced a remarkable full-color coffee-table book on “Stone-Tree Houses of Texas” (Rockstone Press, $30 paperback).
The 269-page book covers 80 sites, mostly homes and small businesses in Texas built from petrified wood.
“The intention of this book,” Garrett writes, “is to introduce readers to examples of a little known and largely unrecognized vernacular art form created mainly during the 1930s and mainly in Texas.”