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The neighbor’s pool

I don’t live in the kind of neighborhood where my neighbors are likely to have a swimming pool. But I did class it up a little bit on a recent trip when my hotel’s neighbor had a pool. I am really cool like that, when I want to be.

(In addition to not having a pool, my hotel also lacked a window washer.)

Alice, Texas
photographed 11.23.2019

4×5 grid

I appreciated the simplicity of these church windows, with their simple 4×5 grid of windowpanes. And that stuff you can see at the bottom of the windows? It’s food, collected by the parishioners, for donation.

St. Paul Lutheran Church
Serbin, Texas
photographed 11.25.2019

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

Mottled

That mottled sunlight looks pretty nice, all serene and stuff. But I was standing right in front of a formidable trap that was in use to catch feral hogs. Those hogs are gigantic and extremely destructive – it fact the earth all around this building was sort of plowed up by their foraging.

From the evidence – a single shell casing on the ground near the trap – I think the population was recently reduced by one, anyway.

on the grounds of St. Margaret Catholic Church
Pin Oak, Texas
photographed 11.25.2019

Circle, with square

And so the church exploration continues, this time looking at the light through some lovely geometric stained glass windows.

(Sorry for the brief posts the past few days. Turns out that getting a flu shot would have been a grand idea. If you get my drift. But I am – perhaps – on the mend and shortly will return to the usual long-winded posts. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

St. Paul Lutheran Church
Serbin, Texas
photographed 11.25.2019