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Bough, frozen
Look at me, pretending I understand color photography!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
The day winter arrived
This is usually how our weather works – it’ll be the end of October and still hot. Like need-an-air-conditioner hot. And then the weather forecast says in four or five days we’ll have six or seven inches of snow. Six or seven INCHES!! It is very exciting. But as the days between now and the forecasted snow dwindle, so does the anticipated snow accumulation. And then, at last, the snow day arrives. Only there’s ice instead of snow.
And then, two or three days later, it’s once again so warm that it’s hard to believe the ice storm really happened.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Bigger than you can imagine
Iced-over sunflowers stretched to the horizon.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Summer’s Sad Soldiers
Farmers around here grew a lot of sunflowers this year. And toward the end of the season, there were a lot of people standing the edges of the fields to get photos. I didn’t stop then, when the flowers were bright and full. But the day of the ice storm? Yes, that was the day I went out to see the sunflowers. The thick coat of ice made everything look blurry and out of focus, an effect I hadn’t quite anticipated but that I rather liked.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Door Number Three
I love to be the only person in a church, and if I’m there at the time of day with sunlight slants through stained glass windows, that’s a nice bonus. I was particularly fond of the way the crosses over the doors got progressively lighter.
And, you may want to know that St. Gall is the patron saint of birds and geese and Switzerland.
St. Gall Catholic Church
Colton, Washington
photographed 9.4.2020
One Day | One Image 