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Falling away from vertical
The stucco on this place has held on just about as long as it can: gravity is taking over.
(What else? Yes: weathered plywood….)
Littlefield,Texas
photographed 12.26.2008
María de Jesús
María de Jesús: that was the name on this roadside cross.
The road is straight here as it crosses the narrow plain between mountain ranges. I was lulled by the post-post-post rhythm of the fence. Post. Post. Post. All straight, all evenly spaced. Until this one, the broken one, with the jagged end pointing directly toward María’s cross.
I’d never have seen it otherwise.
near Marfa, Texas
photographed 2005
Ice storm
The winter of 2009-2010 was bad, by our rather lax Texas standards.
There was a big snowstorm on Christmas Eve that left 7″ of snow. (I know. Those of you who get actual snow are laughing at me right now, aren’t you?) But for us, it was a lot.
Then at the end of January, we got snow and ice. And it stayed cold for a while, with just enough sun during the day that all that frozen stuff could start to melt a little bit. But not much: in the morning the trees had icicles that looked like the prisms on a chandelier. It was pretty.
But it was also cold, and I was glad when summer arrived.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.30.2010
Just a touch of red
This is as Christmas-y as we get here at One Day | One Image: a little bit of red in an otherwise black and white scene. I’m pretty sentimental, as you can tell.
Plainview, Texas
photographed 12.10.2013
Booth. Table. Chairs.
I had a meeting in Plainview, Texas, the other morning and I took advantage of being there to take a few photos before I left. Plainview’s only about 45 miles from Lubbock, but for some reason I never think to drive up there and look around.
I’d been missing a lot.
For one thing, there was this place.
And then I saw this scene. That upside-down chair is what caught my eye. But aside from that, there is sort of a lot going on here. There’s a pumpkin, a small trampoline, a stack of tires, a bell, some damaged pegboard. And that plywood: I am thinking of switching my loyalties from corrugated metal to painted-and-faded plywood. I love the way the faded paint shows the grain of the wood.
Plainview, Texas
photographed 12.10.2013
