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Joe
Just a little shot of Joe’s grave in the cemetery at Terlingua Ghost Town. I didn’t know him, but I liked the handful of candles, the tattered flag, and the scratched-concrete grave marker.
Terlingua Ghost Town, Texas
photographed 3.25.2021
Hideaway, for sure
If you are looking for a town to hide out in, I would suggest Pyote. And if, once you’re there, you feel like you need an other layer of hiding out, there’s always this place.
Pyote, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
Presbyterian
I’d driven right by the interstate exit to Barstow a lot, but never thought about getting off the highway to see what the town might have to offer. Now, of course, I realized that all these years are just a series of missed opportunities to make photos of a place that’s disappearing.
But at least I got there while the Presbyterian church was still there…
Barstow, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
Three Crosses
My geography is a lot of horizontal lines – plowed fields, center-pivot irrigation systems, pipe-rail fences, the horizon itself. And on a good photography day three crosses and the clouds add in some other shapes and keep it all interesting and in balance.
Crosby County, Texas
photographed 7.25.2021
Downpour
We took a more-or-less aimless drive the other day, eventually ending up on a road just because the map indicated a cemetery along the way. As a bonus, that route pointed us right toward some afternoon storms that were building up. And then, as a double-bonus, just when we got to the cemetery one of the clouds, off in the distance, decided it was time to rain.
Crosby County, Texas
photographed 7.25.2021
