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young horse trainer

This kid right here showed several horses during the horse sale. He’s also – according to the auctioneer – “fixin’ to move to Muleshoe.” That’s not a weird cowboy euphemism, but an actual town name. In case you thought there was something weird going on.

Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024

at the horse sale

Every day that I go in to my office, I pass by an events center. And every day I read the marquee announcements of coming events. A lot of them are mysterious to me – generally because they relate to agriculture or rodeo things that are outside of my normal set of things I do.

As part of a commitment to “do more stuff” this year, I decided to head over to the center the other Saturday to check out the Clovis Horse Sales. There was no entry fee, so there wasn’t an apparent down side, other than the extremely remote possibility that I might accidentally bid on a pony.

It turned out to be quite an entertaining few hours.

And I came home pony-less.

Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024

Rodeo Portrait 3

Here’s the last of the rodeo portraits that I made earlier this month. And you know what? I didn’t even hate doing this!

Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.2.2021

The Neighbor’s Opinion

The neighbors definitely have an opinion, don’t they? It’s this sort of uplifting message that I like to see every morning on the way in to the office – it’s nice knowing someone cares that much about what we do.

Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.13.2020

Lawn Mower Fixer, number 2

…and then, just as I was getting back in the car, the sun broke through the clouds and nicely illuminated the Lawn Mower Fixer’s place.

Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.18.2020