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boot/cross
There’s about a quarter mile of fence that’s decorated (if that’s the word?) with boots and bicycles. It’s all wired there, so it seems permanent.
And other than that, all I know is that the Google street view, made in July 2024, does not include them, making them a relatively recent addition to roadside mysteries.
near Quitaque, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
“…the quintessential cowboy”
I looked up Clifford Jackson Taylor after I made the photo but before I wrote this post, and here’s what I learned.
He went by Jackson and was a cowboy, working on ranches across the United States and in Australia. He was a member of the Western Ranch Cowboys Association and was professional bronc rider; he appeared in two seasons of the reality show “Ultimate Cowboy Showdown.” In 2023, he was competing in the WRCA-sanctioned Estancia Valley Ranch Rodeo in Moriarty, New Mexico, fell during a bronc ride and later died, according to a report from the Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon. He was 33 years old.
His grave is here, in a tiny country cemetery that’s down a dirt road.
Grey Mule Cemetery
Hall County, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
spring, a few months away
The wind blew the next day, steady and strong, to scatter these seeds to ensure new plants come spring.
Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
there wasn’t even time to pack the applesauce
I’ve been a fair number of abandoned places and they generally have the same elements: busted furniture, caved in ceilings, dirt, junk. But this was the first place I’d ever seen fourteen jars of baby food that did not make the leave-or-take cut when the family cleared out. There were other signs of children having lived there (toys, a framed portrait of a little girl) but it was this applesauce that grabbed at my emotions.
Quitaque, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
fuji (with fuji)
It’s either a bicycle joke or a camera joke, depending on what your perspective is.
You might think it would be twice as funny, but it’s really not. (Even though I did laugh pretty hard.)
Quitaque, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
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