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Toward their destiny
On this part of the trip, we’d rented a cottage in Stow-on-the-Wold and made day trips from there. We’d start each day with an idea of where we were heading, but for various reasons those plans almost never worked out.
We DID mean to be in this town, but only because I had it confused with someplace else that I’d seen on a previous visit. After a pub lunch (in a building that dates to ~1400), we wandered around the churchyard. I’d like to tell you that I set up the shot of that couple walking toward the graveyard. But I just hate to lie to my loyal reader(s), so I’ll go ahead and let you know that was a lucky composition that went unnoticed until I got home. Sometimes these things work out…
Bretforton, UK
photographed 6.2.2017
Because of the Wind
“The trees bend because of the wind.” – Joe Ely
Even on a calm day, the trees reveal the prevailing wind.
Crosby County, Texas
photographed 5.28.2017
Gilberto, el niño
If you go to El Paso, be sure to plan an hour (if it’s a really hot summer day) or longer (if the weather’s tolerable) to visit the Concordia Cemetery.
If you’re not going to El Paso, but would like to time-travel back to a 1990s website, you can visit the cemetery’s website.*
Of course, you could always choose to do both.
Concordia Cemetery
El Paso, Texas
photographed 5.2.2010
Eventually
The rough stuff is right here in front of us, but it gradually recedes to softer and less defined memories.
I hope.
near Evergreen, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2016
Disposal, two versions
This scene made me really miss my dad – he would have laughed all day about the trash dumpster in such a prominent location at a cemetery….
Mowata, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
One Day | One Image 