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City in the sky: Cloud Gate
My favorite time to photograph the famous Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago is when the light and sky are just right and the edges of the sculpture blur into the sky. Like this.
Also: look! A person!
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 8.26.2019
Coffee shop, afternoon
While I was in town looking for things that needed to be a photograph, I decided to stop in at the local coffee shop. And – who could have predicted? – it, too, needed to be a photograph.
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Brodimatic
The other day, on a jaunt to Plainview, I found this thing, this jumble of hoses and other stuff. The thing on top is a Brodimatic; you probably already knew that it’s a gas meter pump counter, but I had to google it…
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Slow death is certain
There’s only one way this is going to end: in a pile on the ground surrounded by weeds and covered over by the big sky. It won’t happen quickly, probably, but it will happen.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Getting our hopes up
Our summer started out with cool weather and more-than-normal rainfall. But it soon got over that, and now it seems like maybe it’s never rained here. Ever. Not even a drop. And it’s hot, too – at or above 100 degrees for days at a time.
And that makes it seem like maybe this sign is being unnecessarily cruel.
(I am heading shortly to Chicago for a conference, where the high temperatures are forecast to be in the 70s. My work colleague and I had a discussion about packing; neither one of us can recall the right kind of clothes for that sort of weather.)
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
One Day | One Image 