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cotton lint
There’s an excellent BBQ place in Slaton; it’s called Pitforks and Smokerings. You need to go, but get there early because they sell out pretty fast.
It’s housed in an old gas station and there’s an outdoor dining area, marked by black net, where the fuel pumps used to be. This is a shot of the netting that slows down the wind*, provides a bit of shade, and snags up cotton lint from the gin across the road.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 11.22.2024
*I almost said “breaks the wind” but realized that wasn’t AT ALL what I was trying to say.
fell
On one hand, this is an absolute mess of a photo. But on the other hand, it’s my favorite of ones I made over at a park the other afternoon. (It’s a genre I’m calling UICM, or Unintentional Camera Movement. I didn’t invent it but am nonetheless an avid practitioner of it. Apparently)
Jan Jennings Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.21.2024
last whisper
Yes, I’m fine.
I bring it up because this is the fourth day in a row that I have posted a color photograph, which is probably a record for me.
Jan Jennings Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.21.2024
lake, after rain
It’s not New England level of fall color*, but we do the best we can, even if we have to rely on an assist from the red car and yellow van in the background.
Jan Jennings Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.21.2024
*Disclosure: I’ve never been to New England in the fall and am basing this statement on seeing approximately 400 zillion photos full of trees and leaves and hills and barns and color and whatnot.
fall colors
The weather forecast promised rain all day on Sunday. I was very excited because I’d spotted a thing I wanted to photograph in the rain, with reflections coming off the wet pavement. The rain’s arrival time got later and later every time I looked at the forecast, and by about 4:00, I decided to drive all the way across town in hopes that maybe the rain would have arrived by the time I got there. (I had something else to do later in the afternoon so my rain-window was pretty narrow.)
Anyway, it didn’t start raining while I was out, so I didn’t get the shot I wanted. But I did find this nicely colored scene.
(The rain eventually arrived about midnight but I did not go out and get the shot, as I was busy sleeping. It’ll rain again someday. I think.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.17.2024
One Day | One Image 