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Watkins
The only thing I could find out about this place, which appears to have been a department store, was that the corporate entity was filed on Saturday, March 21, 1914, with the Texas Secretary of State.
Nothing even mentioned that great, curvy sign. Or the mosaic wall, or the reflection of a street-light-based poinsettia.
Quanah, Texas
photographed 12.26.2015
Sun Angle
This one is all about the light’s angle, and the way it made that diagonal shadow at the same time it was highlighting the door hardware.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.25.2015
Until next year
Fall at the City’s swimming pool looks like this. I’d like to say I could still smell pool chemicals in the air, but that’s overly poetic. And also not true.
But check out that big wooden electrical spool in the pool – what’s the deal with that?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.25.2015
Beyond the gate: the entire world
These missions were walled communities. To keep people in, or out? Or both?
But at any rate, the entire world lies beyond the gates.
Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
Wooden Stairs
Back in August, I read this this post, by David Scott Moyer, about his visit to Spanish mission churches in northern Mexico. There were a lot of wonderful images, but the one that somehow caught my attention was one of wooden stairs in a bell tower. I thought about those stairs and that image for several days after I first saw it; the idea that each step was made from a single piece of wood intrigued me.
And, then, not much later, I was at a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, and spotted a set of similar stairs. I don’t think I’d have even noticed them at all if I hadn’t seen David’s post – the power of blogging, I guess.
(I still like David’s photo better. In case you were wondering. My shot was a bit constrained by a gate blocking access.)
Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
