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hands off, 1
“We took an oath long ago to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic, and I don’t think(we) either ever imagined that we would have to kick in on the domestic piece of our oath, but we have, we are, and we will.”
Colleen Boland and Sonia Lundy, veterans
as reported by http://www.npr.org, 4.5.2025
Hands OFF protest
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.5.2025
looking for turtles
Little kids around any body of water – a puddle or the ocean or somewhere in between – are so entertaining to watch. They squeal, they run around and jump off things, they approach almost all of it with wild abandon.
These three kids were having a great time hanging over the edge of the spring-fed pool looking for turtles. Judging from their voices (volume + emotion) they saw a LOT of turtles. (If you were wondering, they were likely to have spotted Texas spiny softshell turtles.)
Balmorhea State Park, Texas
photographed 3.22.2025
drops
I sure do like the way the water sluices off her hair…it was just about my favorite thing all day.
Balmorhea State Park, Texas
photographed 3.22.2025
virgil, reading by a tree
This kid was amazing – he was garbed up in his cowboy gear and seemed to feel really at home talking to all the cowboys at the chuckwagon breakfast. He liked to pose for photos, a thing we noticed and that was independently confirmed by his mom.
And when he’d had enough of all of that, he sat under a tree and read his book (a graphic novel about dragons).
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
song circle
My friends and I have a tradition (because we’ve done it twice, so it’s a legit tradition) where we take ourselves and our cameras on road trips to see what we can find. For the most part, we travel without an agenda but with strong curiosities.
In February we headed out to Far West Texas for a few days. One day we ended up in Terlingua Ghost Town, where to our very great delight there was a song circle set up in a parking lot. The musicians agreed to our request to photograph them, so you can guess what we did.
(To be fair, they probably thought we were asking to take a handful of photos, not about a million. But still.)
Terlingua Ghost Town, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
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