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I didn’t plan this or anything like that, but the light was perfect when we got to the baseball game. And it didn’t hurt one bit that the concession employees were wearing bright red shirts and were standing in front of the grass field.
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
ice cream girl
Is it like a hard-and-fast rule that photos have to be, you know, in focus?
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
safety/netting
It was a pleasant night over at the baseball field, where we watched the Brazos Valley Bombers defeat the Acadiana Cane Cutters by a score of 8-5. Until about a week before the game, I’d never even heard of the Brazos Valley Bombers, but this iteration of them has been around since 2006 (“On August 25, 2006, the Brazos Valley Bombers sprung to life at a press conference in the courtyard of the LaSalle Hotel* in downtown Bryan.” is the not-at-all over the top way the team’s website states it.), but there were previous versions of the team from 1947-1950 and from 1953-1954.
Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024
*Yes, you HAVE heard of the LaSalle Hotel before, in the “Front Porch Song” by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen:
This old porch is just a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas
With lots of cheese and onions and a guacamole salad
You can get at the La Salle Hotel in old downtown
With iced tea and a waitress who will smile every time
Yea, she will
(And this concludes today’s session of What I Know About Texas Music. Thank you for joining me.)
native colors
This sun-dappled courtyard could not be more in the spirit of far West Texas – the colors, the textures, the plants, the shade, the sunlight, the sounds all combine to make it the sort of place I could happily spend the afternoon. Or, perhaps, several afternoons and some nights and a morning or two as well.
Planet Marfa
Marfa, Texas
photographed 5.13.2024
desert forest
I’ve been to Valentine several times. I generally avoid going out to see Prada Marfa while I’m there because all possible photos of the place have already been taken.
This gives me time to look around the actual town and that’s how I found a cemetery over there on the south side. Evidently it doesn’t have a name, either on the entrance gate or on Google maps, but it was worth the stop. Plus I didn’t have to wait around for my turn to take pictures (like you do at the famous place) because everyone there but me was dead.
Valentine, Texas
photographed 5.13.2024
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