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Barrier

You can’t even imagine how much I’d like to get inside this place to look around and take a few* photos. That barbed wire, though…

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.21.2018

*Not a few. A LOT more than a few.

Speed Limit

This oddly specific speed limit sign rusts away on the gate to an abandoned cottonseed oil mill. Maybe if people could have driven 11 or even 13 miles per hour, the place could have made it. I guess we’ll never know…

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.21.2018

“There is no death.”

The back of this elaborate tomb was engraved with a quote from Elizabeth Parker, who said, “There is no death. There is no forever gone.”

It is on her own tombstone, and she died in 2011, at age 16.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018

Fountain

A detail of the hotel’s fountain, which was a popular place for photos. On Saturday morning, as guests were arriving for a wedding, there was practically a line of dressed-up folks ready to pose for the camera. Or phone.

Crescent Hotel and Spa
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.5.2018

Dashboard Palette

A beat-up truck in front of an art gallery was itself a piece of art, with that canvas thick with paint on the dashboard. And then, as I stood there, the back window turned itself into a picture frame. (That votive candle in the snow on the hood brought a little bit to the scene, as well.)

Canyon Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 12.25.2015