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hammond

I have issues. Not in general (although of course I do have quite a few general issues) – but with the things in this photo.

First of all, it bothers me a lot that the star on the hot-cold thing is wrong side up. I can almost understand the decision to point in down toward the round thing* but, it is just wrong.

But what gets me even more is that cloud that has a hand (A hand! What the hell?) growing out of the bottom of it.

And let’s not even get into the discussion about if the building that’s held by the cloud-hand is supposed to be a hand-held size or if the cloud-hand is actually gigantic enough to hold an entire building.

Tahoka, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026

*to use the technical term

you’ll never sink when you are with me

I went to the Salton Sea four years ago and just lately took another look at the photos I’d made on the trip.

Some of them appealed to me now more than they did then – and this is one of them.

I do not know what the artist (or artists) intended to convey with this installation in the Salton Sea. Pyramids are said to be linked to funeral rites as a passing of existence beyond time…this one in the dying sea seems especially poignant.

Bombay Beach, California
photographed 2.12.2022

sun/burn

You know how your dermatologist is always talking about using sunscreen?

This right here is why. I mean, just look at their skin – some of it looks like it melted, some of has some awful growths*, and none it of looks healthy.

East Jesus, California
photographed 2.11.2022

*Completely unrelated: what does leprosy look like?

well, this is frightening

There is one thing I strongly believe and that is if the word “escape” is written on the way in to a sketchy building, there is very little chance of your making an actual escape.

So be careful….

Calipatria, California
photographed 2.13.2022

pollination

Just one more thing I learned by looking at the ground….until 2022, I didn’t even know that pollination services were a thing.

Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022