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it gets me every time
A monochrome of a sunflower field seems like the floral equivalent of a monochrome photo of a rainbow. So I did it.
You may not know that Texas is the third highest producer of sunflowers in the US. Also it takes about 16,000 sunflower seeds to plant one acre, which is interesting because that is roughly the same number as it takes to get through one baseball game.
and stay out
Some places seem welcoming, like they’d be happy for you to hang out, relax for a while, enjoy some food or beverages, make new friends. You know what I mean: they are the kinds of places you can think back on with fond memories for lots of years.
This was not one of those places.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.5.2025
irrigation
When I took this, I was still wearing a cast on my foot and shooting out of the car window. But it was nice of my husband to drive me around.
This particular day, as we left the house for an aimless drive, he said, “I feel like looking around in northwest Lubbock” so we headed across town on what seemed like a Regular Adventure. We were under a thunderstorm watch and could see clouds on the northwest horizon, but it didn’t seem like anything was going to happen where we were – our skies were clear.
However, we misjudged the weather and while we were out the storm built up. It built up a lot. Our Regular Adventure was turning into a Big-Ass Weather Event; while we were heading home, our phones alerted us to a tornado warning and (this is the fun part!) the funnel that had been sighted was uncomfortably close to us. We made it home just as the edge of the storm got to our house. The tornado watch lasted for what seemed like days – the tornado sirens were activated, the phone alerts were frequent – but when the storm passed all we’d gotten was a lot of marble-size hail and a couple of inches of rain. Other parts of town (specifically the parts where I’d been taking photos just an hour or so before) were hit by one or two of the eight tornadoes that the storm spawned.
All in all, it was a much more exciting evening than we’d planned.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.5.2025
floral/abstract
I got lost inside of this, in the colors and the shapes and the shadows. It made me feel breathless and disoriented. It was my first experience of the sort (with my own art), and therefore I believe this to be the first meaningful abstract I have ever created.
It feels like an accomplishment. And maybe it was.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025
One Day | One Image 