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Each unhappy family

You know that famous line from Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”? From the looks of the message spray-painted on this truck, I would assume that this family had found yet another way to be unhappy.

O’Donnell, Texas
photographed 7.13.2020

Heavenward

This church, first known as the Swedish Free Mission Church, was built in 1915. The services were conducted in Swedish until the 1940s.

The church is currently called the Evangelical Free Church and services are held every Sunday afternoon at 4:00.

Melvin, Texas
photographed 6.15.2020

Curled Dirt and Hydrant

You can tell by looking at the cracked and curled dirt in the gutter that it’s been a while since any significant rain has fallen on O’Donnell. And apparently that hydrant doesn’t even care.

(Also, it was a toasty 112° that day. And windy. So it was rather like being inside a convection oven.)

O’Donnell, Texas
photographed 7.13.2020

Fenced In (or out)

I guess it would be accurate to describe the land out here as being “as flat as the top of a gate.” Or at least as flat as the top of THIS gate…

Pearce Cemetery
Hale County, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020

Busy Sky

Well, here’s my obligatory comet photo.

And there are some other things going on here, too. First of all, this is the same tree from Half Dead back in 2018. And the lights on the horizon in the center of the photo are from the town of Smyer; the lights further to the left are Levelland. The pink in the low clouds is from distant lightning. And there is a plane, of course, flying below NEOWISE; further down from the plane you can see the trail of a satellite.

The sky was busy that night.

Mallard Road at FM 1585
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 7.17.2020