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Surveilled

The 2018 census estimates put the population of Melvin, Texas, at 167. And I swear that every one of those 167 residents found a reason to drive through town while I was there. It seems more efficient if one person drives through and then lets everyone else know what’s going on. But what do I know?

Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020

Winding is the path

Something something something spiritual metaphor something something.

(Sorry. That’s all I can muster.)

Ballinger, Texas
photographed 6.13.2020

Holy Water

Worship in the Time of COVID is not nearly as catchy a title as Love in the Time of Cholera.

And anyway, hand sanitizer as a narrative is really, really boring.

St. Boniface Catholic Church
Olfen, Texas
photographed 6.13.2020

No Swimming

I’ve been to this swimming pool before, five years ago, and made almost exactly this same photo. I know what I like, right? (Or I’m in a half-decade-long rut.)

But wait – coming soon to this very blog is a photo of a small-town swimming pool that is still in operation! Aren’t you so excited?

Spur, Texas
photographed 6.10.2020

Senior ’66

I don’t think that members of the class of 1966 are really buried in the city park, but that sort of is what it looks like.

(Also: Galveston? Galveston is more than 500 miles away, so who knows what’s going on.)

Spur, Texas
photographed 6.10.2020