Monthly Archives: April 2023

white smoke flag of surrender

Look! It’s some sort of spiky plant that’s all done with being green because the summer heat just dried it up. Most of what we saw in Sicily was in the various stages of being brown.  You know, the way things look when summer starts tilting into fall. Our guide said in the spring and early summer it’s as “green as Ireland.” Obviously, while I do not doubt for one second the veracity of what she said, I do need to go back in an April or a May to see that for myself.

Oh, and also, there’s a volcano.

Mt. Etna, Sicily
photographed 9.9.2022

desertion

I was at an airport. I had a camera. I had time to fill.

And so I made this image, which is the opposite – in a lot of ways –  of this airport photo from a couple of days ago.

Tampa International Airport
Tampa, Florida
photographed 11.4.2022

home run celebration

A home run was a very exciting event for these two fans!

Full disclosure: once the hecklers behind us left, the game was much less interesting and we left early. And that’s why we missed the 9-run seventh inning, and why we missed the eventual 20-16 win over TCU.

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.31.2023

transit

I went to the airport a long time before my flight just so I could take photos of people. A friend of mine called me – and I am quoting him – a “dork.” I mean, he’s not wrong, exactly, but was it necessary for him to verbalize what both of us already knew about me?

Love Field
Dallas, Texas

photographed 3.26.2023

two opposing tropes

OK, so here we’ve got a gigantic cowboy hat on the sign, a common thing people like to pretend everyone in Texas wears all the time.

And then, to keep it interesting there’s a chair that is rather throne like.

It is hard to imagine a situation where both of those things would apply to the same person.

Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023