water/snake

You really should have seen me taking this photo. I was leaning over a low concrete wall and holding my camera as close as I could get it to this water. I am sure that the townspeople appreciated the view and so I think I need to apologize for that particular thing.

However, I also want to thank the fine folks of Petersburg, Texas, for providing such an interesting photographic subject. It was quite an ten minutes of shooting.

Petersburg, Texas
photographed 5.30.2026

daughter of the clouds

Lately I’ve been missing shade trees, specifically the dappled light under them, the sound of the leaves in a breeze, the way it feels cooler under them, and how they feel like an invitation to sit a while. I don’t know where this longing is coming from: I’ve spent most of my life living where shade trees aren’t really a thing that happens unless you have to foresight to plant them yourself. But it’s definitely something on my mind.

But on the other hand, a bunch of trees would block these kinds of views.

Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.22.2026

light as a metaphor

Hello, and welcome to Yes, I Have My Own Thesaurus Day.

Metaphor:
allegory
analogy
emblem
hope
image
metonymy
personification
similtude
symbol
trop
concept

Portland, Maine
photographed 3.14.2026

100% probability

I think you know me well enough by now that there is a 100% chance that I will think hotel-room reflections are very enchanting. And also the same chance that I will make a photograph or ten of them.

Portland, Maine
photographed 3.14.2026

i have questions

Couple of questions here:

  1. Why does that waterfowl need binoculars to look at the barricade that is RIGHT THERE?
  2. How TF is that same waterfowl holding the binoculars in the first damn place?

Portland, Maine
photographed 3.15.2026