Monthly Archives: April 2025
going up against chaos
Just before the railroad overpass, there’s an L-shaped building that’s painted bright green. You can’t miss it.
It used to be a restaurant, and fading lettering on the outside of the building lists some of the options – tortas, tacos, burritos, tripas*, lengua**, and so forth. The short side of the L, toward the back of the lot, has a missing window. If you look in, you can see a mysterious pile of unbroken piñatas. And a framed picture of a giraffe with a price tag that says $39.99. That’s a pretty good price for art and a shrewd bargainer could probably get a piñatas or two thrown in.
Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025
*tripe
**tongue
on the level
Why not take an ant’s-eye view photo?
Lorenzo’s not the kind of town that requires a long wait for a break in traffic there on the main street (which is actually Harrison Street), but still, that morning that I was there, it did seem like a statistically-unlikely number of people were out (and further, that they slowed down when they went by) on that Friday morning.
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025




