Terlingua is a mining district and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Brewster County, Texas. It is located near the Rio Grande and the villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas as well as the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The only remnants of the mining days are a ghost town of the Howard Perry-owned Chisos Mining Company and several nearby capped and abandoned mines: the California Hill, the Rainbow, the 248, and the Study Butte mines. The mineral terlinguaite was first found in the vicinity of California Hill.

In 2020, the population of Terlingua was listed as 78.

We come to get away from the noise of modern life and decompress. We wonder, take photographs, look at the stars, and listen to the quiet. While driving around looking for a place to photograph the sunset with the mountains in the background, I came across this scene. I've never seen any other photographs of it.