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Exxon-no-more
Here’s another view of the hurricane-damaged gas station from yesterday’s post.
At this point, almost two years later, it’s hard to imagine this place will ever be repaired.
Woodsboro, Texas
photographed 5.7.2019
The hurricane took what it wanted
On August 26, 2017, about 25 miles from right here, Hurricane Harvey made landfall. It was a Category 4 storm, and is tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record.
And here we are, closing in on two years after the storm, and damage is still visible across a wide swath of South Texas.
Woodsboro, Texas
photographed 5.7.2019
Family portrait
I’m not intending to be sacrilegious, but it is a family portrait.
Presidio la Bahía
Goliad, Texas
photographed 5.6.2019
Font + candles
When I use my phone to make a photo and I get a result like this, I sort of wonder why I even bother with the other “real” camera…
Presidio la Bahía
Goliad, Texas
photographed 5.6.2019
the mechanics of the thing
My dad was a civil engineer, which meant that I was exposed to hearing about how things worked throughout my life. (Once, as we were pulling out of the driveway to go see my grandpa, I asked what pre-stressed concrete was. An hour later, when we arrived, he was just concluding Part One: Introduction to Concrete.) Probably because of a combination of hearing things like that from my dad and the fact that our brains were wired similarly (except for the part about how he was an engineer and that calculus made me need to lie down), I am always interested in looking at the details in any setting. I like knowing what sort of minutiae matter to the people who use the place and seeing what kinds of things are needed to keep it going.
And so I was happy to be able to see these things, the ones that mattered.
Presidio la Bahía
Goliad, Texas
photographed 5.6.2019
