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hat/train
I feel like many of you woke up this morning wondering just how far down a dirt road I’d drive in reverse to get back to a cowboy hat that was nailed to a fence post.
All the way, my friends, all the way.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
twisted curtains
Maybe you saw yesterday’s post and happened to notice a window in the background? This is that same window, with a part of the left-behind thin curtains wrapped around the old wooden window frame and the other part flapping in the breeze.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
the ending was as unplanned as it was predictable
I was driving on a remote road in the Texas Panhandle when I spotted this abandoned farmhouse. Because the terrain was flat and the house was so big, I saw it for a while before I got to it. I debated stopping to photograph the place – I was on my way to the first day of a photographic journey and had a lot of project-related things to shoot before the sun went down. But I did stop, and it was worth it. As always when I see places like this, I was mystified at the things that had been left behind by the last occupants. This sofa did not make the cut, for reasons that will always remain unknown.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
in memory of the lost ones
I’d lived in this part of Texas for a long time before I learned that there had been a WWII-era POW camp in Hereford, Texas. During the period between 1943 and 1946, over 5,000 Italian POWs were detained at the camp. This camp was the largest POW camp in the United States. The prisoners worked agriculture jobs, mostly, although a few of them worked painting the interiors of the Catholic church in nearby Umbarger. (Here’s more information on the camp.)
Five prisoners died at the camp; other prisoners built this chapel in their memory.
Hereford, Texas
photographed 10.8.2021
Panhandle Arrow
The beginning of the photographic journey that I mentioned yesterday started with a drive along many miles of unpaved roads in the very western edge of the Texas panhandle. I’d never been this way before and it was a stunningly beautiful drive. Right here, where I found this incredible arrow, the elevation was over 4,200 feet and autumn had already arrived; the air was cool and fresh and summer’s heat seemed almost like it had never happened.
This is a road I’d like to drive on many more times.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 11.9.2021
One Day | One Image 