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Lobby, Holland Hotel
I had to wait a few minutes for the desk clerk to return and give me the key to my room. Naturally, I filled up the time without any problem…
Holland Hotel
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.22.2016
Granada and a distant storm
I got up early on my last morning in Alpine and took a walk down Holland Avenue. When I turned around to go back to the hotel, I saw thunder clouds piling up above the mountains east of town.
Later, at breakfast, I heard a woman say she’d seen lighting.
It never rained.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.25.2016
The sporadic fence
That last night, everything seemed to be a photograph.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Laundromat, early morning
An early morning walk – I was trying to catch the cool part of the desert day – gave me a very nice view of this laundromat.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.25.2016
Seating arrangement
There are a lot of things I like about this handmade bench: the 2×4 legs (one with paint, one without), the way the carpet’s not centered, the scallops on the bottom edge of the carpet, that dead branch guarding the approach.
But what I like best is thinking that someone missed their loved one so much they build it in the first place.
at the cemetery
Alpine, Texas
photographed 1.19.2013
One Day | One Image 