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big bags of…something

If any of you have misplaced your giant bags full of…something…I may have located them. Please contact me for additional information; for verification purposes, please be prepared to describe the contents of the bags.

Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024

reflections of small town life

Every time I go to Littlefield, there’s something that catches my attention. On this particular trip I made a lot of photos of this shiny thing (not a mirror – I don’t know what it was) leaning against a wall. I particularly noticed the way its reflection was monochromatic while the rest of the scene, though quite ragged, was colorful.

Littlefield, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024

over at the hut

I’ve been photographing the decline of this hut for about 17 or 18 years. Lately, every time I head over to check it out I think THIS will be the time the roof has fallen in. One of these days, of course, I’ll be right.

Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.2.2024

el martinez service

I’ve been this place a lot of times but never even gave it a second glance. So maybe I missed seeing when it was open, seeing what the local customers were doing.

Or maybe, it’s been closed so long that if I had noticed it before now it would have looked approximately like this.

(Reason 1 to go back over and over to the same place.)

Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024

the cloth on the cross

I don’t know if this rope was placed deliberately to echo the purple cloths that are placed on crosses during Lent, but my mind made the connection.

For whatever that is worth.

Ribero, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.24