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Market (closed Sunday)

The Patient Spouse and I have just returned from a drive across Nebraska, where we visited some of the towns he lived in as a child. This grocery store was there when he was a kid, and I sort of think the very same person still works there as a cashier… The place is closed on Sunday, so we’ll never know for sure.

Maywood, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018

Somewhat less than it was

I’ve been pretty busy at my real job and was starting to get a little twitchy because I hadn’t been out with my camera. Only one thing to do in a situation like that: the work stuff can wait (and indeed. it was still there when I got back on Monday), but that twitchy feeling’s only going to get worse unless I get out and shoot.

I got out my big atlas (The Roads of Texas) and selected a destination, then cross-checked it with a quick Google street-view look, and off I went.

This wasn’t my actual destination*, but it was a nice thing to spot along the way, a clear reminder that Wilson, Texas, used to be able to support a block-long business district.

Wilson, Texas
photographed 7.28.2018

*A swing set at a tiny crossroads town in Crosby County. That’s what I saw on street-view. Stick around – that photo will post in a few more days…

Maybe I misjudged the place

I’ve lived almost my whole life in the western part of Texas, so I think I know how to read a place accurately and quickly.

Turns out, I’m not as good at that as I thought: I did not think Fort Stockton was the kind of place that would need a tuxedo store…

Fort Stockton, Texas
photographed 7.13.2018

The job of the artist

Part of the show 44 Texas Artists, Part 2 (which is mostly obscured by people.)

First Friday Art Trail
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
Lubbock, Texas
July 6, 2018

Cloud Gate, 2

I think it is actually against the law to go to Cloud Gate and not take a photo of downtown buildings distorted by the curves…

Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.23.2018