haunted sign?

Pictures first. Will eventually post text.

I guess the only way that works for me is to do a little bit of posting at a time.

Here are some questions about the pictures:

If you don't enlarge the framed potraits and read the plaques, do you know who the individuals are, where the paintings are on display, and why they are there? And do you know anything else about them? That is, why are they famous besides the direct reason they are in those paintings?

What live person do you think was looking down from the railing in the overhead dome almost the entire time we were there?

Lastly, for now, here's a completely unfair question: Why have I posted two photos of a sign?

I'll answer the last question.

One, it is in the parking lot of the most amazing restaurant. You'll never see a billboard or sign for it. You could drive by it (although the chances of that are slim and none ... it is on a very remote road in the Texas countryside) and still not notice any indication that a restaurant that can serve perhaps a thousand people at a time is just on the other side of some bushes and trees. If you don't have a friend that knows about this place, you'll never find it. (Luckily, we have two such good friends - Richard and Barbara, shown seated at one of the Salt Lick tables.) The Salt Lick cooks its entrees in an open pit BBQ inside the front doors of the main restaurant building. The last, I believe, such a set up in all of Texas.

Two, the bigger reason I have posted the two photos of the sign.

For the second time on the trip, I believe I may have captured some sort of ghostly doings.

What?

A haunted sign?

Ayup. You got it.

Here's the explanation. I took a picture of the sign to help remember the name of the restaurant since there's no big sign with its name on it.

So what?

The sign is on sitting at the beginning of the parking lot. It has white letters on a green background. Very green. Not black. So when I saw the results of the photo on the camera screen, I was confused. I waited for it to correct itself. It didn't happen. So I took another picture. Same thing. Then I had Mike stand beside it. You might barely be able to make him out in the second of the two posted sign pictures. Then I had one of our friends take our picture with the sign just to our left, but outside the camera's range. That is the picture I posted with the sign pictures. It came out normally.

Okay, I guess there must be a reason. My friends think it has something to do with the reflectivity of the sign paint. Maybe. But if there ever was going to be a reaction to reflectivity I would have thought that all the Vegas pictures would have turned out black and white. And why was Mike not visible in the second picture taken from further away?

Anybody have any ideas?