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bottled/water
One of my friends told me about this place because she was pretty sure I’d like to photograph it. That’s Interesting Detail 1.
Interesting Detail 2 is that I made this on the very first day I didn’t need the knee scooter I’d been using since mid-May. (I’ve moved on to a gorgeous primer-gray walking boot.)
Other than those things, this is just a pile of empty 5 gallon water bottles in a side yard of the Sierra Springs water store.
Hang on! I just discovered Interesting Detail 3: Google street view of this place was in 2023 and at that time, this area contained one roll-off dumpster, one white pickup with a camper shell, and not a single bottle.
As the Talking Heads said, “I got some wild, wild life.”
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.21.2025
But we don’t know where we’ve been
This iron bridge, which was built in the 1880s, is still in service today, and is nice surprise if you’re taking the painted churches tour.
But, really, it wouldn’t be a photo of an old bridge without a David Byrne reference, now would it?
Well we know where we’re going
But we don’t know where we’ve been
And we know what we’re knowing
But we can’t say what we’ve seen
-Road to Nowhere
Dubina, Texas
photographed 11.24.2019
“This is not my beautiful house.”
It was the part of town where a fairly high percentage of mean-looking dogs weren’t on a leash. Or a chain. I have an inherent fear of dogs anyway, and these particular animals looked like maybe they’d been waiting all day to enjoy a nice snack of photographer’s leg.
So, I stayed in the car to take this picture.
Which is why I heard the Talking Heads on the radio, singing “Once in a Lifetime” while I was shooting. And at the very moment I took this shot, I heard David Byrne sing, “This is not my beautiful house.” Coincidence or not – either way, I was greatly amused.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 3.9.2014
This must be a place
This building is somewhat reticent on the matter of it’s being THE place, but just in case it is, here’s a musical interlude to start off the year – The Lumineers singing the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place”.
(For you purists out there, here’re the Talking Heads, same song.)
Aransas Pass, Texas
photographed 10.9.2011
The road to nowhere
The streets are wide enough so trucks have an easy time backing up, and pulling away from, loading docks.
It makes me think of the Talking Heads:
Maybe you wonder where you are
I don’t care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you thereWe’re on a road to nowhere
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.28.2013
One Day | One Image 