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the people with eyes
Little towns are really proud when they can associate with someone famous. (Check out Wink, Texas, and Roy Orbison, for one example.)
Erick, Oklahoma, really hit the (musical) jackpot, with two residents who became famous enough to be on a mural right there along Route 66. No side-street art for THESE guys. No, sir.
Anyway, it’s Roger “King of the Road” Miller and Sheb “The Purple People Eater” Wooley. And I do not mind admitting that I am sort of obsessed with this mural, and don’t even mind that there are security lights sticking out of Mr. Miller’s forehead.
Route 66
Erick, Oklahoma
photographed 7.27.2026
dancing feet
I was walking toward the mural to get a photo and noticed the reflection in the car window; my trip was halted right then.
Sometimes I can be easily distracted…
Dallas, Texas
photographed 11.28.2025
broken chain
He was 19. And an expectant father.
He rolled his truck trying to outrun the police.
His obituary says his nickname was “Big Daddy.”
The police say he was driving without headlights.
The truck on the mural doesn’t have its headlights on, either.
San Jon, Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
sidestreet cowboy
That is ONE TALL COWBOY. And I’m pretty sure that, while he’s super polite and takes his hat off when he meets a lady and says “howdy” and all that, he also isn’t going to be too inclined to take any shit off of anyone.
Post, Texas
photographed 8.5.2024
the town with no perspective
This place (apparently) has lost all perspective.
I’ll wait here until you notice why.
Roby, Texas
photographed 5.23.2024
One Day | One Image 