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never saw saturday
This summer’s weather has bounced all over the place – we’ve had cool days, days that were pushing 110°, days where it felt like it had never in all of history rained, days when it rained as though it would never stop. There doesn’t feel like there’s a middle anywhere in the mix.
When it’s hot, my brain thinks colors have faded so it was pretty insistent about the final look of this image since the garden tour landed on a very hot day.
West Texas Master Gardeners – garden tour
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2026
stars + a summer storm
I really do feel bad for people who live in a place where their views are obscured by trees and hills or mountains, because they miss out on the opportunity to sit outside in the evening and watch thunderstorms march across the Plains.
The other night I was at my place out in the country and spent a few delightful hours watching storms.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 7.20.2024
Wading
A year ago, things were normal. I didn’t know it; I just thought things were…things. And I was traveling for work. And people were playing in the water. And I was making photos.
You know, normal.
Crown Fountain
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 8.27.2019
Going Swimming
It was a hot and dry day. The town’s swimming pool was open; from a block away I could hear those shrieks that are particular to kids playing in a pool. It seemed so summery and normal which made me think about going in to take pictures of the swimmers. (I know! I thought about photographing people. Must have been a bit of a heat stroke.) I didn’t go in, though, because that seemed creepy and intrusive, and because this woman and her family created a nice enough tableau as they paused to pay their admission fee that I didn’t need to go any further.
Menard, Texas
photographed 6.14.2020
Getting our hopes up
Our summer started out with cool weather and more-than-normal rainfall. But it soon got over that, and now it seems like maybe it’s never rained here. Ever. Not even a drop. And it’s hot, too – at or above 100 degrees for days at a time.
And that makes it seem like maybe this sign is being unnecessarily cruel.
(I am heading shortly to Chicago for a conference, where the high temperatures are forecast to be in the 70s. My work colleague and I had a discussion about packing; neither one of us can recall the right kind of clothes for that sort of weather.)
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
One Day | One Image 