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Dried Beef
What luck to find a dead cow beside the train tracks, with a passing train thrown in for good measure! Although I am somewhat more lucky than the cow.
along US 90, near Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.14.2018
Things held sacred
You other photographers know exactly how this works: you’re driving along and see something (let’s say a wooden cross mounted on a fence in front of an abandoned house, to pick something at random), and you drive right by. Then, maybe a mile or two down the road, you start to think that maybe you should have stopped to photograph it. But you drive on for maybe another mile before you convince yourself that you need to get that shot. And then it takes a minute or two to get to a place where you can turn around, and then maybe you have to drive past it a little ways to find a place to make that second turn-around. And then, there you are. With the cross, just like you spotted it from the car, nicely framed between two different-height fence posts.
Just a normal-ish drive, right?
Ward County, Texas
photographed 7.15.2018
three chairs
If you take a tour of the Farnsworth House, you get to use these three chairs and the one bench while you take your shoes off before you go inside.
The Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
photographed 6.26.2018
from the river side
My dad was a civil engineer, with a specialty in wastewater treatment. I can recall quite a few times on vacations when we’d take a detour from the regular route in order to check on a new wastewater-treatment facility. It was interesting. (Ha! Ha! No it wasn’t. But you know what it was? Smelly, usually.)
Anyway, time goes on, as it does, and the detours-based-on-profession now involve architecture, which is nicer to look at (usually) and much less fragrant (always). And that’s why on our recent trip to Chicago we took a two-hour drive from the city to go look at this house. It’s famous. And so is the architect.
The house is adjacent to (and sometimes, depending on flood conditions, in) the Fox River; this is the river-facing side.
The Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
photographed 6.26.2018
Pasticcini
Really? How would you ever decide?
(I couldn’t, so I had gelato instead.)
Eataly Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.25.2018
