Witness this most Texan of scenes: It’s early on a spring morning, bright sunlight bearing down on a field of tall prairie grass across a newly paved highway in a pristine suburb south of Houston. Mockingbirds chirp as you sit outside in the sun, enjoying a kolache stuffed with chorizo at a little family-run restaurant across the highway from a middle school named after Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan. Such is a typical morning at Pena’s Donut Heaven & Grill in Pearland’s pretty Shadow Creek neighborhood. PHOTOS BY TROY FIELDS

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