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Week of Randomness: Almost Nothing
Santa Rosa, New Mexico, is one of my favorite subjects. It’s got a very nice array of falling-down buildings and out-of-businesses and interesting cemeteries.
On this particular visit, it also had birds. Lots and lots of them, all flying at once from under the canopy at an abandoned gas station. I made quite a few attempts to catch them in flight, and there was nothing good about any of them.
When I was working on my posts for the Week of Randomness, though, this minimalist image caught my attention.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.5.2013
Preserver
This Navy ship was in port the entire time I was in New Orleans for a conference. On my very last night in town, right after I made this shot, I found out the name of the ship – the Kearsarge. THEN, when I looked it up, I found out that there have been several previous Kearsarges, including one whose name was changed to the Hornet. My father-in-law served aboard the Hornet in the 1950s.
And, so it seemed like everything came full circle, right there beside the Mississippi River.
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.23.2018
Wizard of Magazine Street
Some important things here:
- In New Orleans, sno-cones are called sno-balls.
- This was taken on the corner of Constantinople Street and Magazine Street. Anyone who’s read A Confederacy of Dunces (which I hope is most of you)(seriously)(get a copy today) will recognize Constantinople Street as the home of Ignatius J. Reilly.
- How cool is it that there are two Zs in the title of this post?
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.21.2018
All the rectangles in town, probably
It’s not like a secret or anything: I sure do love some rectangles.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.29.2018
In the window
I drive past this former restaurant almost every morning on my way to work, and keep thinking I ought to stop and make a few photos. Late last month, a weird thing happened and I needed to go to the office on a Sunday, and for some reason I remembered to take the camera.
I worked for a few hours, and then as a reward to myself for my effort, my camera and I stopped at that place I’d been eyeing. And this is what I saw…
Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.29.2018
