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110th turkey
Some members of my family are data driven: we have a weird need to know how far, how many times, how often, how much. Some of us keep spreadsheets to track ridiculous statistics. Others of us know that their rate of travel shooting a Route 66 photo project is 17.8 miles per hour.
We are the Keepers of the Statistics.
Anyway, that is how we know beyond a doubt that this pot has fried 110 turkeys since 2000: there’s data to tell us.
We know we’re dorks. We don’t care. And even it we did care, I don’t think it would be possible for us to abandon our weird ways. My dad, an engineer to the last molecule in is body, was a Collector of Data. He kept an old-style surveyor’s notebook in his car and would carefully note the car’s gas mileage at every fill up. He also kept scrupulous travel journals, the last page always containing a summary of miles traveled, total expenses, and the per-day averages of both. See? We can’t help it.
Plano, Texas
photographed 11.27.2025
what it looks like inside a dust storm
It was hard to tell if this old house was coming or going…either way, I have some concerns about the stability of the right-hand side. It’s developed a bit of a droop.
To be clear, the dust was NOT blowing the day I was there. But it was definitely a possibility given this place’s location in the middle of a cotton field, which was itself in the middle of an arid region. My mind assumed the dust and through the Magic of Editing™ I was able to get the photo to look the way a dust storm feels. (If you’ve never been in one, you ought to head out here and give it a try!)
Scurry County, Texas
photographed 11.26.2025
fall (in more ways than one)
There is a lot of weird stuff to look at in Mineral Wells.
I can’t wait to go back.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 11.29.2025
ring light
Barbershops fascinate me, for reasons that I can’t figure out.
But anyway, I can’t recall seeing one that had such modern lighting. (Also I did enjoy the way the two capes were draped over the chairs.)
Dallas, Texas
photographed 11.28.2025
nazareth hospital (and barbed wire)
At some point this was a hospital – the Nazareth Hospital – and then at a different point it was abandoned and had sheet metal over some of the windows and a barbed wire fence around it.
Here are some things I learned from the internet.
The place opened in 1937; in 1931 the Holy Sisters of Nazareth purchased it and renamed it. It was used as a hospital until 1970, when a new facility was built. After that, the building was used for a variety of things until it was abandoned in the early 2000s.
And now, for $99 you can spend six (after dark) hours inside the place with “experienced paranormal investigators” and discover the “secrets” of the place. The fact that the website promoting this adventure misspelled “skeptical” makes me, well, skeptical about the whole setup.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 11.29.2025
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