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Hotel bar: no one’s heard of day-drinking?
It was mid-afternoon, and the hotel bar was all locked up, leaving me to always wonder where the town’s day-drinkers gathered…
Hotel Settles
Big Spring, Texas
photographed 11.23.2018
While I waited for lunch
I am not a patient person.
Taking up photography has helped me a lot, though, because even ridiculously long waits for a server to arrive to take a lunch order (to cite a recent example) can turn into a photograph. And I’m much less likely to get fidgety. And/or pissy.
Hotel Settles
Big Spring, Texas
photographed 11.23.2018
The more formal approach
While I am drawn to things that are falling apart or are otherwise not symmetrical, sometimes a formal arrangement does catch my attention. That’s what happened here, with the steps and the brick and the pattern on the doors and the shadows, all lining themselves up perfectly.
Big Spring Municipal Auditorium
Big Spring, Texas
photographed 11.23.2018
Charters, excursions, and fun!
The scale of this makes me laugh. That cart on the right looks to be about the same size as the excursion boat.
Another thing that’s funny to me is the protective covering over the paddlewheel. But the sign says “Charters, excursions & fun!” so I feel like my amusement is somehow sanctioned….
Lake Nasworthy
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 11.24.2018
Clouds and branches fight it out
Winter-dead ivy branches seemed to be clawing at the sky. Maybe they’d already scraped the clouds into those little pieces?
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 11.24.2018
