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I expected to see Brandon
I’ve been wandering through rural West Texas towns for a long time and have made thousands of photos of things I’ve seen. I’ve come to expect certain standard markers of life out here. Like campaign signs for people (white men, almost always) shouting about their conservative credentials, businesses that deal in agricultural/oilfield stuff that I don’t understand, Dollar General stores every place, a smattering of Confederate flags, pro-Trump signage (although there seems to be way less of that).
Anyway, when I saw a window painted with “Let’s go…” I absolutely, completely expected the next word to be “Brandon.” Just goes to show that I don’t know everything, which comes as somewhat of a surprise to me, if I am being honest. Yet here we are.
Sundown, Texas
photographed 6.14.2026
let there be light (fixtures)
It was a cold day. And it was raining. And it was also (bonus!) windy.
So naturally, we took a drive to Sundown, Texas, to find possible photographs. That part of the trip was a letdown because there wasn’t much there…although I was fond of these gigantic light fixtures, hovering with no real purpose above what was left of a fueling plaza.
Today it is supposed to be 108° here, which makes three days ago seem like a dream.
Sundown, Texas
photographed 6.14.2026
Repay you for the years
The late sun caught this sign* on the western edge of the town of Sundown, a fitting sentence, maybe, for a rainy weekend in the midst of great drought.
Sundown,Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
*It’s Biblical – Joel 2:25. In case you wondered. Full disclosure: I Googled it; it wasn’t something I just knew.
(You can see other photos from the Day of Driving and Photographing here, here, and here.)
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