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Each unhappy family
You know that famous line from Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”? From the looks of the message spray-painted on this truck, I would assume that this family had found yet another way to be unhappy.
O’Donnell, Texas
photographed 7.13.2020
Heavenward
This church, first known as the Swedish Free Mission Church, was built in 1915. The services were conducted in Swedish until the 1940s.
The church is currently called the Evangelical Free Church and services are held every Sunday afternoon at 4:00.
Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020
Curled Dirt and Hydrant
You can tell by looking at the cracked and curled dirt in the gutter that it’s been a while since any significant rain has fallen on O’Donnell. And apparently that hydrant doesn’t even care.
(Also, it was a toasty 112° that day. And windy. So it was rather like being inside a convection oven.)
O’Donnell, Texas
photographed 7.13.2020
Fenced In (or out)
I guess it would be accurate to describe the land out here as being “as flat as the top of a gate.” Or at least as flat as the top of THIS gate…
Pearce Cemetery
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
Life as an open book
I guess it felt a little bit like I was standing at a pulpit, about to deliver a sermon. Sure, the potential listeners were all dead, but I didn’t have that much of importance to say, so it didn’t really matter.
Pearce Cemetery
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
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