Monthly Archives: June 2024
angel, three twigs, and an ant
Here’s a cemetery angel with what appears to be three twigs growing out of her face. There’s a huge ant crawling up her arm but it was the whole chin-twig situation that caused me to make the photo.
And also why do you suppose that angel wings are always depicted in sort of a partially-open pose, like a bird that’s just landed and hasn’t had time to fold away its wings? (Oh, yes: that is actually a thing I wasted some time thinking about. It’s stuff like this that clutters up my mind and distracts me from thinking about things that are important and/or have actual answers.)
Old City Cemetery
Caldwell, Texas
photographed 6.13.2024
maine
I didn’t plan this or anything like that, but the light was perfect when we got to the baseball game. And it didn’t hurt one bit that the concession employees were wearing bright red shirts and were standing in front of the grass field.
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
ice cream girl
Is it like a hard-and-fast rule that photos have to be, you know, in focus?
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
safety/netting
It was a pleasant night over at the baseball field, where we watched the Brazos Valley Bombers defeat the Acadiana Cane Cutters by a score of 8-5. Until about a week before the game, I’d never even heard of the Brazos Valley Bombers, but this iteration of them has been around since 2006 (“On August 25, 2006, the Brazos Valley Bombers sprung to life at a press conference in the courtyard of the LaSalle Hotel* in downtown Bryan.” is the not-at-all over the top way the team’s website states it.), but there were previous versions of the team from 1947-1950 and from 1953-1954.
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
*Yes, you HAVE heard of the LaSalle Hotel before, in the “Front Porch Song” by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen:
This old porch is just a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas
With lots of cheese and onions and a guacamole salad
You can get at the La Salle Hotel in old downtown
With iced tea and a waitress who will smile every time
Yea, she will
(And this concludes today’s session of What I Know About Texas Music. Thank you for joining me.)
scottish signage
I’m not sure what a “weak road” might actually be, but I guess it’s safe enough to drive on if you’re trying to get to the golf course.
Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023
One Day | One Image 