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Flowers, wind, and sleeplessness
My mom filled up the flower beds in the back yard with irises; there were the usual colors, like yellow or purple, but there were also exotic ones, like black. Or the white variety that had blooms as big as a softball. I loved those flowers.
But they weren’t a match for the kind of wind we have in west Texas, and often their fragile petals would be bruised or torn by the wind. On nights when the wind blew, I’d lie awake, feeling sad for the way I knew the flowers would look in the morning.
I have a few irises now, dug from my mom’s yard. The big white ones started blooming the other day, the day the temperatures were over 90°F. Last night, the wind blew all night, and this morning’s temperature was almost down to freezing.
Also, last night, I was awake almost all night, unable to sleep from some vague worry that I couldn’t quite define. It wasn’t until I was driving to work this morning that I thought about my mom’s irises and my youthful, sleepless nights. And understood why I was awake last night.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.24.2012
Heaven on a Sunday morning
Of course you knew this: that the very instant I first saw this place, which was on a Friday night, I made plans to go back on a Sunday morning just so I could use “Heaven on a Sunday morning” as the title of a blog post.*
As it turns out, heaven isn’t too crowded on Sundays. Just a couple of guys working on repairing the brick street, a man on a bicycle who was shopping the trashcans, and me.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.7.2013
*I realize I could have actually taken this photograph any day of the week and just pretended I took it on a Sunday. But I wouldn’t do that.
Authorized Personnel
The is the same building as the rectangle-filled place from Sunday, only closer. And with fewer rectangles. Although I think I should get rectangle credit for the shape of the painted-out graffiti.
From a photographic standpoint, it’s nice that whoever painted over the graffiti didn’t even TRY to match the color of the brick. But from an aesthetic standpoint, maybe they should have?
True story: just as I was writing this post, I got an email from the Utne Reader, with a link to an article about green graffiti. Obviously this trend has yet to arrive in Lubbock….
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.7.2013
U-Haul Parking
Some of my favorite things came together here: a wide gravel parking lot, a lonely building, some good clouds. Add in a U-Haul trailer, and I am a happy photographer!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.29.2013
Rectangles: too many to count
I can’t argue with my pal Ehpem, who recently pointed out that I tend to shoot a lot of rectangles; it’s possible I overdid it a little bit here.
It’s a rectangle overload.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.7.2013
One Day | One Image 