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How to warm up the morning
Quitaque’s population is less than 400, so it’s hard to imagine the town ever had need of a boarding house. But we found a two story building that seemed to have once been one. The front of the place was brick with arch-topped windows that still had organdy curtains hanging. The side was less fancy, with window air conditioners instead of curtains. But the back porch was the best.
I think “Warm Morning” is an excellent name for a heater – the name alone would make you feel better about the day.
(My favorite thing, after the heater, is that duplex outlet by the step.)
Quitaque, Texas
photographed 2.14.2015
Secrets to a cooler room
- Get the air moving.
- Keep the sun out.
Or, go someplace that’s air conditioned.
In college, I lived in a mobile home that had a not-very-efficient window air conditioner. If you could sit about a foot away from it, it wasn’t too bad. Any further, though, and it got pretty hot. Summer school terms were especially bad in that tin-can house. I didn’t spend much time at home: I was at the library, or the design studio, or the bar. Or anyplace that was cooler than my place.
in my room,
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2014
Re-vote
1. Earlier this week, my blogging friend from Infrared Robert and I exchanged a series of comments on our tendencies to second-guess ourselves.
2. I usually write my blog posts a week or so in advance, which gives me a cushion if I get busy and also gives me ample time to (you see where I am going here) second guess myself.
3. Every now and then, I’ll look at a post and think, “Nope. Won’t work.”
4. And that’s exactly what happened last night. I looked at what I’d scheduled for today and hated it. I can’t even think why I wanted to post it in the first place. In a manner of speaking, then, I took a re-vote on the photo. So, instead you get this shot, which I made on the plaza beside the famous and overly-photographed church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico*. I have an interest in the regular things that happen in places like Ranchos de Taos, which surely gets overloaded with camera-toting tourists. I wonder what it’s like to have a house there, or run the little cafe. And I think about who feeds that big black cat I saw on an adobe wall. Or who brings the newspapers in from Albuquerque and Taos to put in the machines. And if anyone even buys papers any more.
5. There was a re-vote and Kit Carson Park is now known as Red Willow Park.**
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2014
*Google it and you’ll see what I mean.
**A song about Kit Carson; that name change was a little bit overdue.
A body of architectural elements
The only reason we even stopped in Ferndale was because, from a bit of a distance, we could see the spire of this church. And from the road, we could tell that the building had some lovely architectural elements. I am very fond of the pebbled texture of the glass, and the glimpse of stairs heading to the bell tower.
Assumption Catholic Church
Ferndale, California
photographed 7.30.2012
The fact of being curved
Industrial architecture used to be lot curvier than it is now, don’t you think?
Tatum, New Mexico
photographed 5.11.2014
One Day | One Image 