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birds, fleeing
My aimless approach to the shed full o’ junk scared up a flock of sparrows (?), but it didn’t scare them much: they flew about three joists down and settled in like nothing ever happened.
Ralls, Texas
photographed 1.13.2024
holy hell
I never know what to expect when I peek through windows of abandoned places. And while I was glad to learn that the public water supply was approved, the sight of that witch and the skeleton-in-a-box did startle me just the tiniest bit.
Ralls, Texas
photographed 1.13.2024
bois d’arc series #3: half a hedge apple
Bois d’arc trees were named by French settlers, who observed native people using the wood for bows and war clubs.
A member of the mulberry family, bois d’arc tree is thought to have originated during the Oligocene epoch, approximately 30 million years ago. It is believed that the trees were distributed with the help of large herbivores, such as now-extinct sloths, mastodons, and mammoths.
I believe this half of the fruit was distributed to the concrete picnic table by a passing driver who pulled over to see what those things all over the ground were. He or she had a formidable knife if they were able to cut the thing in half: it’s as hard as a rock.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 1.13.2024
(Thanks to this post for much useful information on this interesting tree.)
eight days
When the Christmas-table flowers were eight days old some of the flowers were dead and lying on the table, which of course called for a photo.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.1.2024
shutter
The other day, someone asked me if having an architectural degree influenced my photography. (Because that degree hasn’t exactly influenced my bank account in any noticeable degree.) Anyway, I guess it did, because otherwise I would have passed right by this shutter without making a photo. You know, the way a normal person would have.
But I bet my architecture professors are real proud.
Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023
One Day | One Image 