Monthly Archives: July 2020
Curled Dirt and Hydrant
You can tell by looking at the cracked and curled dirt in the gutter that it’s been a while since any significant rain has fallen on O’Donnell. And apparently that hydrant doesn’t even care.
(Also, it was a toasty 112° that day. And windy. So it was rather like being inside a convection oven.)
O’Donnell, Texas
photographed 7.13.2020
Fenced In (or out)
I guess it would be accurate to describe the land out here as being “as flat as the top of a gate.” Or at least as flat as the top of THIS gate…
Pearce Cemetery
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
Busy Sky
Well, here’s my obligatory comet photo.
And there are some other things going on here, too. First of all, this is the same tree from Half Dead back in 2018. And the lights on the horizon in the center of the photo are from the town of Smyer; the lights further to the left are Levelland. The pink in the low clouds is from distant lightning. And there is a plane, of course, flying below NEOWISE; further down from the plane you can see the trail of a satellite.
The sky was busy that night.
Mallard Road at FM 1585
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 7.17.2020
Life as an open book
I guess it felt a little bit like I was standing at a pulpit, about to deliver a sermon. Sure, the potential listeners were all dead, but I didn’t have that much of importance to say, so it didn’t really matter.
Pearce Cemetery
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
Unsustainable
This was one of the more spectacular trees I have ever photographed. And the next strong storm will probably topple it over.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
One Day | One Image 