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Impermanent

Once you’ve seen this photo, you’ve gotten the gist of the entire town, unfortunately.

Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020

The Last Quarter

Here’s my confession: I didn’t even SEE the moon when I made the picture. I didn’t notice it until I was in Lightroom, looking for and erasing a few dust spots. And even then, I thought it was just a giant hunk of dust stuck on the sensor.

It’s a shame that I am not nearly as observant as I believe myself to be.

Katemcy, Texas
photographed 6.14.2020

Double Baptist

I drove through a town that was so small that I barely noticed it. (Sorry, tiny town.) On the north side of town I passed a church and seconds later, my brain decided that the sign out in front said “Double Baptist.” A minute or two after that, my brain also decided that I couldn’t go another day without a photo of the Double Baptist Church.

It is actually the Doole Baptist Church, and my brain obviously cannot be trusted.

Doole, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020

Cabinet

I have an endless fascination for the things that get left behind when a place is abandoned. It started in Floydada, Texas, when I spotted a single spatula left in an out-of-business hamburger stand, and I haven’t gotten over it yet. I understand that maybe the last people who lived here didn’t really mean to abandon the place, but a sofa? Or an electric skillet, a cooler, some jars, and all the other stuff that I couldn’t see well enough to identify?

Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020

Love, too

That old plywood serves as the town’s message board, from the looks of things…

Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020