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Baby

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A lot of babies are buried in this remote cemetery – one row had five tiny graves, all marked “Baby Smith.”

Then there was this marker, made from concrete, with only part of the words still legible.

Red Mud Cemetery
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.14.2015

The last rotary

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This may be the last rotary phone…and from the amount of dust on the cord and the top of the receiver, it hasn’t been used in a while.

(Spotted at the Dixie Dog, where if you sit at the counter for lunch, a friendly waitress named Kay will be happy to talk. And where the cook, having completed the lunch rush, said she was going outside to “smoke a piece” of her cigarette.)

Spur, Texas
photographed 3.14.2015

Girls

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We found this in the fashion district in Los Angeles. This time, I was looking up, instead of around back…

Los Angeles, California
photographed 4.15.2013

Window Grids

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There is a measure of dignity in the window grids of this old house, I think. And look at that paint that’s still hanging on, the beneficiary of protection from the roof overhang.

Midland, Texas
photographed 8.23.2104

Through a wood-smoke haze

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To say the island is sparsely populated is an understatement. There is only one road, skirting the edge between volcanic mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The road, which isn’t always paved, doesn’t make a complete loop of the island. This scene is common.

along the road
Taveuni, Fiji
photographed 7.4.2013