papershell
As is it turns out, San Saba is the pecan capital of the world*, so it’s easy to find things with pecan-themed names.
And that’s how it happened that I sat in the Papershell** Bar and had an old fashioned made with pecan bitters.
San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
* Yes. The world. The ENTIRE world.
**A variety of pecan.
surveillance
I know you are aware that I have a thing for photographing things reflected in windows. I am charmed by the way the camera sees it differently than my eyes do. And I’m enchanted the way reflections layer themselves with the non-reflections, weaving all of it into something that seems *almost* real.
Lometa, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
where is thy sting?
A grave marked by a barbed-wire cross somehow seems more raw, more tragic than if the marker had been a plain white one.
China Creek Cemetery
near San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
lunch, on the way
The local coffee/sandwich place is on the bottom floor of the old bank, and they use the vault for dry-goods storage.
There’s a 6-room hotel on the second floor of the same building.
I can definitely recommend both places.
San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
soft flower in a red sunset
It didn’t seem like the sunset was going to be anything spectacular. But then the sky was gold and yellow and red and there were mammatus clouds.
And yucca flowers, bathed in the surreal light.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 5.12.2023
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