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tru ex

 

This was the same spot where the store clerk told me that another customer’s dog had jumped right out of the truck window and came on in the store. Not a service animal or anything – just a dog. In the store. He said, “It was real hoppy.”
 
And then to leave that conversation in time to see THIS? Oh, Clarendon: you’re a treasure.
 
Clarendon, Texas
photographed 8.5.2024

earth’s reflections

 

We spent about twenty minutes lying in various road puddles trying to get the Most Awesome Photo Ever.

That was enough time for the entire population of Earth (898 people) to drive by to look at us. And I know for sure that one person (I’m looking at you, woman in a black Bronco) went by more than once.

Earth, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024

room 100

 

It was 104° at 6:00 pm and I had just the tiniest bit of heat exhaustion. Setting the a/c as low as it would go was very helpful. I know you were wondering.

(Note: I’d had plenty of water that day. And it had electrolytes in it. But still that damn heat just got to me.)

Post, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024

the visitor

 

Evidently the Photography God(s) thought our photos of this old place needed just one more element because this vulture showed up and posed exactly where we needed him or her to be. And for a few minutes we forget that it was a thousand degrees outside, that we’d driven a million miles that day and still had a few hundred to do, that we were standing where there could indeed be snakes lurking: the sheer joy of photography and of discovery took over. You know, the way we wanted it to.

King County, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024

last rider

 

And then, when it was fully dark, the last rider left the rodeo arena.

We left too, but reluctantly, because it had been just an outstanding evening, one that wasn’t planned but that was the perfect end to a trip with my friends. It just goes to show what can happen if you decide to cross the highway to the rodeo arena to see why the lights are on. Or whatever: just go look.

Post Stampede Rodeo
Post, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024