Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey
there’s always a water bottle
Fun fact: almost every abandoned building will have at least one water bottle gathering dust along with the other discarded parts of someone’s life.
Muleshoe, Texas
photographed 7.14.2025
through longing and through pain
This is a shock, right? Can you even believe that I’ve made such a swing from abandoned monochrome downtowns, to this?
What happened was I took a class on macros and close-ups, and we had homework. At the same time (but unrelated, probably), I sort of re-injured my surgery foot and had to be non-weight bearing for a few days. That meant that a trip to New Mexico had to be cancelled and my plans to do my homework in adobe churches or whatever fell all the way apart.
My dining room table turned into a studio and I gathered up things I could carry to the “studio” in one hand while I navigated the knee scooter with the other and they became my subjects.
I’m still not happy about the surgery setback (it’s much better now) or the cancelled trip (I’m still sort of stabby about that) but those things conspired to lead to me shoot something I’d never even given the slightest consideration for a photograph.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2025
all in all it’s just another brick
I know: it’s vandalism. And I’m supposed to not be in favor of it.
But damn…those colors…those lines…that shading.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2025
as wine, the strongest heads
There are two hats hanging on a hook in the garage. To be honest, I am afraid of wearing either one of them: I think there are spiders or maybe these weird almost-clear geckos in them. And who even knows what else might be in there that I would prefer not to have on my head.
But I didn’t encounter anything dangerous when I made this photo.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2025
one stitch holds it all
I have four or five vintage quilts; I don’t know the provenance of any of them, other than to say they are soft and old and lovely.
I like to think that this one stitch is the one holding the entire quilt together.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.10.2025
One Day | One Image 