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a portal in portales

I had to run a little errand over to New Mexico the other day, so naturally I took my camera with me. And look what I found! Yet another photograph-worthy window reflection. (It’s sort of like an obsession, really.) An observant pedestrian stopped while I made the image, but she looked extremely confused about what was going on, which is not all that shocking, if I’m being honest. Normal people probably really don’t stand a few feet from a building and take a photo of it when there’s a whole world going on just across the street!

Portales, New Mexico
photographed 8.11.2023

papershell

As is it turns out, San Saba is the pecan capital of the world*, so it’s easy to find things with pecan-themed names.

And that’s how it happened that I sat in the Papershell** Bar and had an old fashioned made with pecan bitters.

San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023

* Yes. The world. The ENTIRE world.
**A variety of pecan.

fancy lighting

That’s a fancy light fixture they’ve got inside there. I wonder why.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

 

citrus

Maybe you knew that part of Route 66 went through Chinatown in Los Angeles. I did not know that until fairly recently.

But look! Here’s a truck of citrus!

Chinatown
Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.3.2023

communication

If you were wondering if there was a place where cell-phone usage overlaps with pay-phone utilization, I may have found it.

Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.9.2022