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wayfinding
Some places have trees that grow along the road. We’ve got something similar, only it’s signage sprouting all over the place.
(You may think, “Wow, only 98 more miles to Big Lake. I bet it’s nice there in the summer, what with a big lake and all!” DO NOT FALL FOR THIS TRICK.)
near Ackerly, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
he was out at first
That runner gave it all he had, but he was watching the ball could already tell that he’d be out at first.
His team (the Amarillo Sod Poodles) won, anyway.
Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
can’t sink me in sorrow
I’ve lived almost my whole life on the plains, within view of long horizons. Without them, I feel constrained.
Which I guess is why I took advantage of a piece of a horizon and stretched it out into a four-shot panorama. I felt better, too, when I was done and the photo was a little more horizon-y than the camera realized.
Gilbert’s Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
motors
I’ve been watching the place for a long time, waiting for the abandonment to hit the critical, photo-worthy point. And it’s nearly there…
The day I visited I noticed how those letters were cut from sheets of plywood. And then I realized that the wood grain is going in different directions on the letters and now I can’t un-see that part of it. (That’s a weird relic in my brain left over from when I was learning – unsuccessfully – to sew. Nice that I still remember to lay a pattern the same direction on the grain of the fabric and how hilarious that one thing still hangs around to influence random photographs.)
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
index notch
If you ever wondered if those indentions in old-school dictionaries have a particular name, the answer is that yes, they do. They are called an index notch.
If you ever wondered if a close-up photo of an index notch* looked like a piece of wood that had been carved out, that answer is also yes.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2028
*See how smart you are? You JUST learned a new word and there you are, already using it in a sentence. Yay, you!
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