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harry’s boot
This is what you can see at the corner of West Wallace and South High Streets, in the center of downtown San Saba. In case you’d been lying awake at night wondering.
San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
portland bolt
I first discovered this bridge in 2020: I saw a sign on the highway that said “Regency Bridge” which made me say to myself, “Sure. Why not?”
It’s a narrow suspension bridge with a wooden deck, spanning the Colorado River.
Now I pay it a visit any time I’m in the area. This time I was interested in the cables and the bolts and the other stuff that keeps the bridge, well, suspended.
Regency Bridge
San Saba County, Texas
photographed 7.21.2023
uh, what?
I know. It IS shocking that the fur and rare skins ( ! ) store seems to have gone out of business.
Lometa, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
nine lots for sale
It was really hot the day I was in Lampasas, but the local museum was not only open but nicely air-conditioned. After I spent some time inside looking around, I went back out and walked down an alley, because of course alleys often have things in them that need to be photographed.
And that’s how I found this.
Now, I’m not a marketing person, but it does seem like in a shed off an alley may not be the best location to advertise those nine lots….
Lampasas, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
bois d’arc series #3: half a hedge apple
Bois d’arc trees were named by French settlers, who observed native people using the wood for bows and war clubs.
A member of the mulberry family, bois d’arc tree is thought to have originated during the Oligocene epoch, approximately 30 million years ago. It is believed that the trees were distributed with the help of large herbivores, such as now-extinct sloths, mastodons, and mammoths.
I believe this half of the fruit was distributed to the concrete picnic table by a passing driver who pulled over to see what those things all over the ground were. He or she had a formidable knife if they were able to cut the thing in half: it’s as hard as a rock.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 1.13.2024
(Thanks to this post for much useful information on this interesting tree.)
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