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Psycho Heart
The whole reason I went to Prada Marfa was to see what the back of it looked like; I was distracted by this fine scene at first.
Then I saw this fence and graffiti.
And I sort of never did get the back-of-the-place shot that I intended. Some days are just like that.
behind Prada Marfa
Valentine, Texas
photographed 7.23.2016
The leaving
Someone was checking out; this is the kind of place where she could leave her clothes on the cart while she went back upstairs for the rest of her stuff.
Holland Hotel
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.22.2016
Lobby, Holland Hotel
I had to wait a few minutes for the desk clerk to return and give me the key to my room. Naturally, I filled up the time without any problem…
Holland Hotel
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.22.2016
No Game
The visitors’ side of the bleachers at Marathon High School. The district’s not very big – 41 students in grades K-12 in the 2014-2015 school year.
If you’re interested in finding out the upcoming football schedule (or anything else, really), good luck: the website that’s listed for the school district actually goes to a site dealing with lower-case-M marathons and running and has an article titled “5 kick-ass foods I switched to for my marathons.” Check it out! If you want a tiny bit of demographic data about the district, you can find it here.
Or (and this is really my suggestion), you can just look at this photo and imagine a school district that averages 3.15 students per grade.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Mr. Nichols’s Steer
In 1991, Texas artist Harold Nichols donated this sculpture to his alma mater, Sul Ross State University in Alpine. According to the Library of Congress, the sculpture contains enough steel to build an automobile. (I imagine they mean a 1991-era automobile, not a 2016 one.)
But anyway, Mr. Nichols called the steer “Old Maverick.”
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
