roadside wings
The clouds seem to mirror the wings on the cross, like the spirit of the person has ascended skyward.
Bailey County, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025
life’s hard road
Like most photographers, I have certain scenes that I am attracted to, that are meaningful to me.
About 1997 I started photographing roadside crosses; it was an exceedingly odd thing for me to do, because I would never considered myself to be a photographer. But there was a voice in my head, a feeling in my soul that I *had* to do it. I tried to ignore it as long as I could but eventually that voice became too much to ignore. For a decade, I photographed these memorials, first using a point-and-shoot film camera, then moving on to a very basic digital camera; I almost never photographed anything except these sad memorials.
Then one day, I was done. With the project, and with photography.
Only of course I wasn’t: two years later I took up posting a daily image and here I still am, shooting and posting my way through.
And eleven days ago, I stopped at a roadside memorial. Some things just don’t relinquish their hold on you.
Bailey County, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025
hard times had landed
Here’s the latest entry in my long-running practice of shooting photos through dirty windows, just to see what’s inside.
The last time I posted one of these sorts of photos I commented that there is nearly always a water bottle somewhere in the scene. And just because I can’t see one here probably only means that it was there, but wasn’t visible…
Bledsoe, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025
one-half mile
The cemetery was about knee-high in weeds and it’s both snake territory and snake season, so I didn’t walk around. But from what I could see, the number of headstones on the sign is roughly equivalent to the number of graves in the cemetery.
Fun fact: the town and the town’s cemetery are spelled differently.
Roosevelt County, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
today’s hymns
I went inside every building in the entire town, which took a lot less time than it sounds like it would have. Of course, that’s largely because there is only one building in town and it has only one room. So all in all, I feel like I did a thorough building assessment.
Inez, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
One Day | One Image 