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Wheel stops, abandoned parking lot, perform their own concrete/weed ballet. . Lubbock, Texas photographed 8.5.2018 . #haiku #poetry #parkinglot #learningtosee #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #blackandwhitephotography #leicaOur summer started out with cool weather and more-than-normal rainfall. But it soon got over that, and now it seems like maybe it’s never rained here. Ever. Not even a drop. And it’s hot, too – at or above 100 degrees for days at a time. . And that makes it seem like maybe this sign is being unnecessarily cruel. . (I am heading shortly to Chicago for a conference, where the high temperatures are forecast to be in the 70s. My work colleague and I had a discussion about packing; neither one of us can recall the right kind of clothes for that sort of weather.) . Lubbock County, Texas photographed 8.10.2019 . #roadtrip #summer #hot #norain #lubbockcounty #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #onedayoneimage #blackandwhitephotography #leicaI went to Ralls. And when I was there, I saw this nice, vacant building. . Ralls, Texas photographed 8.3.2018 . #haiku #poetry #thepoetryofphotography #thoughtfulseeing #learningtosee #taketimetolook #blackandwhitephotography #leicaI am pretty sure that Cecilia got the fanciest monument in the entire cemetery. . Petersburg, Texas photographed 8.10.2019 . #travel #roadtrip #petersburg #ruraltexas #cemetery #thoughtfulseeing #learningtosee #taketimetolook #onedayoneimage #blackandwhitephotography #leicaI had a feeling The Joker Coffee Shop may not be in on joke. . Penwell, Texas photographed 7.15.2018 . #haiku #poetry #thepoetryofphotography #roadtrip #abandonedplaces #penwelltexas #learningtosee #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #blackandwhitephotography #leicaDeath was right there, in my rear view mirror. . Or, at least, the Petersburg cemetery was in the mirror…. . Petersburg, Texas photographed 8.10.2019 . #roadtrip #cemetery #rearviewmirror #petersburg #ruraltexas #onedayoneimage #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #blackandwhitephotography #leicaLet’s pretend – for fun! – that this is actually a stack of paisleys. . Levelland, Texas photographed 8.4.2018 . #haiku #poetry #thepoetryofphotography #paisley #learningtosee #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #levelland #blackandwhitephotography #LeicaThings don't look so good for Southwestern Grain, Inc. But there's the future - a wind farm over on the horizon. . Hale County, Texas photographed 8.10.2019 . #roadtrip #travel #halecounty #backroad #pastandfuture #learningtosee #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #onedayoneimage #blackandwhitephotography #leicsChair was left behind. Now it’s just velvet, mildew, dust, and pigeon shit. . Bledsoe, Texas photographed 8.12.2018 . #haiku #poetry #thepoetryofphotography #roadtrip #abandonedplaces #chair #feralchair #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #learningtosee #ruraltexas #blackandwhitephotography #leicaI feel good when I can see all the way to the edge, to that long and flat horizon. Those of you who live where there are hills and trees surely think I am deranged, but I don’t have any apologies. . I’ve not always been able to recognize or admit to my love of this flat place. It stated to change one summer night when we were staying in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies. A storm came up, with lots of thunder and lightning; usually storms like that are exciting, but this night I was edgy and restless and paced around the cabin until the last echos of thunder had faded. Later – several years later, because sometimes I am really slow about stuff – I began to understand the storm made me nervous because I wasn’t able to see where it was in relation to where I was. The so-called scenery was blocking my view! As you can imagine by looking at the photo, we can see a storm from miles and miles away: there’s comfort in that. . (Of course, with land this flat, there’s a whole genre of “it’s so flat that…” jokes, most of which are just as funny as you’d think. The only one I really like is “it’s so flat that if you stare long enough at the horizon, you can see the back of your head.”) . Hale County, Texas photographed 8.10.2019 . #roadtrip #travelphotography #halecounty #windfarm #abandonedhouse #taketimetolook #thoughtfulseeing #learningtosee #onedayoneimage #blackandwhitephotography #leicaThe blog on Facebook!
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A Far Side cartoon in real life possibly?
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Oh, yes, Midvale School for the Gifted is one of my very favorite Far Side cartoons. And in our family, when someone does the door wrong, we’ll always say, “Midvale School.”
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