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Parking (lots)
The first time I stopped in this town, a man pulled up in a truck and asked if he could “hep” me. He said, “She* seen you turn around at the gate** and we was wonderin’ if you needed some hep.”
I assumed that “hep” was a local word for “murder” so in a classic move, I tried some misdirection: I asked him where the cemetery was (“Own it, murderer!” was what I said to myself.) He told me it was down yonder, just past the silver*** house and I made a quick escape.
And then: I WENT BACK to that place. I didn’t see my friend from before, and to honest, I sort of missed him – I reckoned that I could add to my narrative.
Guess I’ll have to go back. Or is that too much fate-tempting?
Foss, Oklahoma
photographed 11.27.2021
*I don’t know who “she” was/is.
**I also don’t think I turned around at the gate?
***By “silver” he meant gray. Gray siding.
Jug-a-Lug
I stopped because of the Jug-a-Lug sign. But I made the image because of the state of that building with the boarded over windows and the (probably ineffective) patches.
So my Very Important Lesson For The Day© is that sometimes the thing you think you need to photograph is actually the thing that leads you to the thing you need to photograph.
Weatherford, Oklahoma
photographed 11.27.2021
Security Dog
You know how sometimes you go to an unfamiliar town and it feels comfortable and happy and friendly and you say to yourself, “I think I could live in a place like this!” and then you spend a happy few minutes imagining your new life in this magical place?
This was not that kind of town.
Bridgeport, Oklahoma
photographed 11.27.2021
Vast + Beautiful
“There’s nothing to see on the Plains.” – a falsehood
Here are a couple of iPhone panoramas that may help dispel that line of thinking. The top one is a highway rest area along Interstate 40. (That smudgy grey thing on the horizon on the right side is wildfire smoke.)
The bottom image is from a rest area on a back road in Briscoe County, taken about an hour after the first one.
Gray County, Texas
Briscoe County, Texas
photographed 11.27.2021
Dead Blade
I am not sure what happened to this turbine blade. All I know is that I stopped by there to photograph it on November 21; I wasn’t happy with those shots. So I stopped by there again a week later to give it another try. That might indicate a great level of dedication. Or it might indicate a complete lapse in photographic skills on the 21st.
(It might also indicate a lapse in photographic skills on November 27th, as far as that goes.)
Floyd County, Texas
photographed 11.27.2021
One Day | One Image 