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tenant farmer
So, does God get the agriculture exemption on His taxes, or do Paul and Linda claim it?
(Just one brief example of the sort of nonsense my brain comes up with.)
near Childress, Texas
photographed 8.5.2025
skinned elbow and a red dress
I love the contrast between a little girl’s fancy dress (sparkles! a brooch on a belt!) and the mannequin’s skinned up elbow.
It reminds me of earlier this year when my granddaughter had to leave the Cotillion early so she could get to…football practice.
Hereford, Texas
photographed 8.4.2025
icon, Texas version
Last year when my good friends from New England made their inaugural visit to West Texas, I decided that one of the things we had to do was to stop at the Big Texan Steak Ranch. Then I doubled down on that plan and we also spent the night next door at the Big Texan Motel. Both places were equally kitschy, which was of course the point of our visiting them.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 8.4.2025
first christmas
I don’t know…this scene appealed to me.
Also, see that man on the top of the ladder on the right side? No, I didn’t either for a long time.
Presidio, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
no trash!!
This was the second creepiest cemetery I’ve been to.
What happened is that my traveling companions and I parked down the hill from the cemetery and left our truck unlocked while we walked around the place. All three of us had a uneasy feeling and one of us (it was me) got weepy at the sight of a grave that was marked by a jar of rocks and cross of wire with a chunk of glass in it.
All at once, it seemed like time to leave.
And when we got back to the truck, someone had lowered the tailgate. We didn’t do it before we walked up the hill. And we didn’t see anyone at all nearby.
So then it really seemed like a good time to leave…quickly.
Redford, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
(The creepiest cemetery? Oh, that’s in Memphis, just off Elvis Presley Boulevard, a totally murdery-feeling place called Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Yikes.)
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