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Various Icons
Oh, man, I loved the way the cowboy, the crucifix, the five black crosses, and the little stone saint’s niche were all hanging out together in this part of the cemetery. It looks like the cowboy is heading out, though, so I guess I got there just in time.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
No Game
The visitors’ side of the bleachers at Marathon High School. The district’s not very big – 41 students in grades K-12 in the 2014-2015 school year.
If you’re interested in finding out the upcoming football schedule (or anything else, really), good luck: the website that’s listed for the school district actually goes to a site dealing with lower-case-M marathons and running and has an article titled “5 kick-ass foods I switched to for my marathons.” Check it out! If you want a tiny bit of demographic data about the district, you can find it here.
Or (and this is really my suggestion), you can just look at this photo and imagine a school district that averages 3.15 students per grade.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Mr. Nichols’s Steer
In 1991, Texas artist Harold Nichols donated this sculpture to his alma mater, Sul Ross State University in Alpine. According to the Library of Congress, the sculpture contains enough steel to build an automobile. (I imagine they mean a 1991-era automobile, not a 2016 one.)
But anyway, Mr. Nichols called the steer “Old Maverick.”
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Granada and a distant storm
I got up early on my last morning in Alpine and took a walk down Holland Avenue. When I turned around to go back to the hotel, I saw thunder clouds piling up above the mountains east of town.
Later, at breakfast, I heard a woman say she’d seen lighting.
It never rained.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.25.2016
Target Marathon (a guerrilla art installation)
So remember the other day when I posted a non-traditional view of the well-know Prada Marfa art installation?
This piece, known as Target Marathon, showed up one day this past January, and so far no one has claimed responsibility for it. I believe it is sort of an artistic middle finger thrown in the direction of Prada Marfa, which is about 80 miles away.
near Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
