Monthly Archives: June 2025
sacrament
A member of this church drove up while we were outside taking photos and asked if we would like to see the inside. She unlocked the door and then left us alone for a while, a great kindness that I didn’t pay enough attention to at the time.
I like it that she was proud and wanted to show her meaningful place to three strangers. And her letting us experience the church for ourselves, without staying to see what we were doing, was the very best example of natural grace that I can even imagine. I am sure our thanks weren’t nearly enough.
San Isidore Catholic Church
Coyanosa, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
campfire coffee
The photographer I used to be seems like a distant memory. That photographer who would never intentionally photograph people, and instead stuck to ragged buildings and empty landscapes – the photographer I thought I’d be forever – has left. And now I actively seek out places where I can photograph people doing what they do – even if they’re doing it on a very cold morning in Alpine, Texas, to cite just one example.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
you who are the stranger
This place is special in ways that I can’t explain. I hope that all of you have a place or two just like it.
near Toyahvale, Texas
photographed 2.18.2025
toy explosion
This is why I’d rather have a road-trip lunch at a hometown place instead of a chain restaurant out on the Interstate. I love the randomness of it all – the lack of a baseboard, the way the wainscoting doesn’t quite match, the cord and outlet, the weird silver thing hanging off the wall, and (the best part) those vending machines.
Also we saw a man there who looked like Roy Orbison, if he was still alive and a lot younger.
Terrazas Restaurant
Pecos, Texas
photographed 2.18.2025
fake
This had the chance to be poignant scene – flowers and a candle next to wavy glass in a ghost-town church.
But it’s a battery-operated candle and fake flowers. I hope that at least the glass was real but I was afraid to tap it with my fingernails in case it was plastic: I couldn’t have stood the disappointment.
Terlingua Ghost Town, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
One Day | One Image 