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too big to survive
I know for sure that this was the longest car on the whole block and feel confident that it was also the longest car in the entire town.
I tried to imagine parking a car this long…do you think there were smaller cars that operated like tugboats to nudge it into place?
Also, my shooting partner and I were surveilled while we were there – the business owner and his wife drove over* to see what we were up to after his camera alerted him that there was someone walking around. He was sort of belligerent at first but we were charming. According to us. Also we were on the public right of way so we sort of had that on our side and they decided to let us stay.
Floydada, Texas
photographed 5.30.2026
*They wheeled up so fast it was like something was on fire.
light as a metaphor
Hello, and welcome to Yes, I Have My Own Thesaurus Day.
Metaphor:
allegory
analogy
emblem
hope
image
metonymy
personification
similtude
symbol
trop
concept
Portland, Maine
photographed 3.14.2026
i have questions
Couple of questions here:
- Why does that waterfowl need binoculars to look at the barricade that is RIGHT THERE?
- How TF is that same waterfowl holding the binoculars in the first damn place?
Portland, Maine
photographed 3.15.2026
drug/violence
I do enjoy looking at the random things that people post on poles. There are a lot of stories represented by this stuff. Like this pair things I saw in the Old Port…in my mind there is a direct link between the two .
But at any rate, I want to think that punch was real and not staged for the photo. And, what’s in the bag on the sidewalk? And is that one guy’s fly unzipped? And why does the white design on the window make me think of powdered sugar decorations?
Portland, Maine
photographed 3.15.2026
oyster (with seagull)
Blue isn’t necessarily the strongest color in a scene (Hello, yellow-green), but the light-magic of fog gives blue a pretty good chance to dominate. And then there was that extremely well-timed seagull…
Fun Fact 1: in my senior year in architecture school, my design professor (Dan MacGilvary, who was outstanding) told us his most hated color was a specific shade of yellow-green that he called “snake-shit green.” He promised anyone who used that color in their renderings would fail his class.
Fun Fact 2: my sister and I called that same shade “spit-up green” and almost never used that particular Crayon.
Fun Fact 3: I don’t know how a post about this blue sign got hijacked by the color chartreuse.
Portland, Maine
photographed 3.16.2026
One Day | One Image 