Monthly Archives: August 2016
Mr. Nichols’s Steer
In 1991, Texas artist Harold Nichols donated this sculpture to his alma mater, Sul Ross State University in Alpine. According to the Library of Congress, the sculpture contains enough steel to build an automobile. (I imagine they mean a 1991-era automobile, not a 2016 one.)
But anyway, Mr. Nichols called the steer “Old Maverick.”
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Granada and a distant storm
I got up early on my last morning in Alpine and took a walk down Holland Avenue. When I turned around to go back to the hotel, I saw thunder clouds piling up above the mountains east of town.
Later, at breakfast, I heard a woman say she’d seen lighting.
It never rained.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.25.2016
One Day | One Image 