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saddle shop
All I can tell you about this is that it is definitely not a standard-issue let’s-sew-up-a-Butterick-pattern-this-Saturday sort of sewing machine.
Big Bend Saddlery
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.20.2025
bus
As some point, people had been living in this bus. By the time we found it, the household’s items were strewn about and it’s seeing the things left behind (one tennis shoe, a kid’s homework papers, a tube of SuperGlue) that speak to me the loudest.
Pyote, Texas
photographed 2.18.2025
your sweet and shiny eyes
Our “hometown bar” during our time in Alpine… This scene reminds me of the song “Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes” – and I don’t even care if it’s Bonnie Raitt or Jackson Browne or Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell singing it. (Although I prefer the Gretchen/Tom version if I’m being honest).
In my sweet dreams we are
In a bar and it’s my birthday
Drinking salty margaritas with Fernando
Alcove Social
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.21.2025
virgil, reading by a tree
This kid was amazing – he was garbed up in his cowboy gear and seemed to feel really at home talking to all the cowboys at the chuckwagon breakfast. He liked to pose for photos, a thing we noticed and that was independently confirmed by his mom.
And when he’d had enough of all of that, he sat under a tree and read his book (a graphic novel about dragons).
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
song circle
My friends and I have a tradition (because we’ve done it twice, so it’s a legit tradition) where we take ourselves and our cameras on road trips to see what we can find. For the most part, we travel without an agenda but with strong curiosities.
In February we headed out to Far West Texas for a few days. One day we ended up in Terlingua Ghost Town, where to our very great delight there was a song circle set up in a parking lot. The musicians agreed to our request to photograph them, so you can guess what we did.
(To be fair, they probably thought we were asking to take a handful of photos, not about a million. But still.)
Terlingua Ghost Town, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
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