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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

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

sunbleached

This was one of those photos that I sort of thought I noticed when I walked by but it didn’t quite register in my brain. But then that little voice – the one that’s way smarter than I am – said, “Seriously? You’re just going to keep walking? Are you even for real?”*

So I turned around and made a photo.

Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.30.2022

*That voice is a total wise-ass.