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select all squares containing an airplane
As you may have figured out, I crack myself up on a pretty regular basis.
This scene makes me think of those CAPTCHA things where you have to select all the squares with an airplane in them.
There. My work is done for today: I’ve planted that idea in YOUR head now. You’re welcome.
San Antonio International Airport
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.10.2026
approaching gate 17
I took an Uber to the airport. My driver’s name was Shirley. Or maybe it was Sherry. At any rate, she was bat-shit crazy. Told me her “good” car had been in an accident* so she was driving her “back-up” car; said the steering wasn’t very good but that it would probably be OK. She told me there were litter boxes in classrooms in Austin because of the furries**. She told me she’d been a tomboy as a girl and that now “they” (it’s always “they”, isn’t it?) wanted to “slap penises on all the tomboys.”***
Her comments made the driver from the night before who’d told me he was a private investigator, which 100% seemed like a story he was making up as he went along, seem boring. And normal.
Anyway, when I got in the airport, I walked around for a few minutes to clear my head of all the Ubery bullshit I’d just heard. It didn’t really work: it’s now a couple of weeks later and I am still thinking about Shirley/Sherry and her, uh, thoughts on things.
San Antonio International Airport
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.10.2026
*Accident was not her fault. Of course. It never is.
**What?
***Again, what?
morning flight
As long as I’ve got a camera with me, I will never be bored in airports.
I might be frustrated, over-peopled, tired, too cold/hot, hungry, and things like that. But bored? Nope.
San Antonio International Airport
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.10.2026
color of light
I spent a whole day in San Antonio taking Ubers from place to place – no real plan, just finding things that that sounded interesting.
Although Western art isn’t by favorite genre, I somehow decided to go to the Briscoe Museum of Western Art. I liked the art a lot more than I expected, found an artist I’d never heard of whose work I liked very much*, and saw this scene from the second floor mezzanine.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.9.2026
*Kim Wiggins. Look him up. You’ll see what I mean.
only after a series of passages is clarity obtained
You can begin the search for clarity if that’s your desire. There are passages to navigate along the way, distractions coming in from the sides, a rough path to walk. That clarity you seek will wait for you…but maybe it won’t wait forever.
There’s the rub.
Mission Concepción
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.6.2026
