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Bedlam
Here’s another view of this storm, taken just south of the Canadian River.
The geography here is known as the Breaks, rough and rugged terrain that’s very different from what you’d expect to see on the Plains. Barry Lopez’s excellent book Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape describes it this way:
Breaks, in the western United States, are tracts of rough, broken land, similar to badlands, that are of little commercial or utilitarian value – stretches of terrain, cracked and fissured by arroyos and ravines, nearly impossible to negotiate for any distance on foot or by horse. A dramatic example is found in the Texas Panhandle, where the course of the Canadian River abruptly fractures the smooth face of the Llano Estacado into a virtual bedlam of steep hills and tight passages.
There’s bedlam, too, in the sky above the breaks.
near the Canadian River
Roberts County, Texas
photographed 8.28.2014
Church Dining Room
Here’s another view of this church.
Urban designers sometimes use the term “wayfinding,” which means the use of signage or other visual clues to help people easily identify where they need to go. I suppose a church building itself could be considered an example of wayfinding, in a spiritual sense. But this church also used wayfinding in its urban design sense, too, with the Church Dining Room painted on the wall above the correct entrance to the dining room. Just out of this frame there is a sign that says Prayer Room.
Lighthouse Church of God in Christ
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.23.2014
Orbs
These strings of glass balls were hanging in the sun at Pike Place Market. Maybe those ships in the port behind them worked some kind of subliminal message, but they reminded me of glass fishing floats.
Seattle, Washington
photographed 8.1.2014
What the one has to do with the other?
A (I’m guessing) power plant and an (I’m guessing) orca have somehow merged together. I don’t get it, but am assuming that the broad expanse of wall space was enticing for the marketing department for the Seattle Aquarium, which is just across the street.
Seattle, Washington
photographed 8.1.2014
Night registration
I guess when that cross-country drive in the giant motor home gets to be too much, a campground with night registration is a welcome sight. Even if it looks a little ominous.
along Route 66
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.3.2013
