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Pipe rail gate, almost invisible

A sliver of a pipe-rail gate anchors the desert, while clouds slowly build.

But it doesn’t rain.

near Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.10.2015

Her death became a prison

View from inside a cemetery shrine, constrained by the bars on the glass-free window.

Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018

Mop

I made 18 shots here, to get the flags just right. Guess which one was the best. Yes, the very first one.

But it’s only marginally about the flags anyway. It’s the mop, really.

Valentine, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018

Shorthand Images

It’s easy to tell that I was in the American Southwest – the iconic skull and dried-chile wreath gave it away.

Marathon, Texas
photographed 12.24.2018

What leaving looks like

If you go to Valentine, Texas, and think the church will be unlocked and then discover it’s not, this is what you’ll see as you leave, trying not to be too disappointed.

Valentine, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018