Evidently the Photography God(s) thought our photos of this old place needed just one more element because this vulture showed up and posed exactly where we needed him or her to be. And for a few minutes we forget that it was a thousand degrees outside, that we’d driven a million miles that day and still had a few hundred to do, that we were standing where there could indeed be snakes lurking: the sheer joy of photography and of discovery took over. You know, the way we wanted it to.

King County, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024