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Maybe you know how it is – how that plain metal building and that basketball goal are so plain, so every-day, that you hardly notice them. Until that one day, when the sun’s right and the photographer’s mood is, too, and it is suddenly something that’s almost otherworldly.
That’s what happened here.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 6.9.2016
Cornered
The broken-cornered piece of plexiglass made a ground-high greenhouse for buffalo grass.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 12.5.2015
The more I see the less I understand
I’ve seen this old gate before. A lot of times. But it wasn’t until I made this image that I noticed that the window seems to be at the bottom of the gate. That doesn’t seem exactly right.
Nor, of course, does a gate-window seem quite right.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 12.5.2015
Wideness of being
This is my first attempt at a panorama, and was taken from the edge of Yellowhouse Canyon in Lubbock County, Texas.
Yes! In spite of all my talk about how flat it is around here, we’ve got this gem hiding in plain sight. This is (in my opinion) the very best view in the county. We are lucky enough to own some land out here; in theory this view will some day be my every-day view. In practice? Uh…we are still in the planning stages. Normal people would have bought the land a decade ago and been living out here already for nine years. Here’s the thing: my husband’s an architect, and I have a degree in architecture, making us the worst clients ever. We make design decisions, then endlessly second-guess them. We want a big house! Or a little one! Stucco! Or that cool steel that’s made to rust on purpose! It should definitely have a courtyard! Unless a courtyard’s a dumb idea! Something on the house should be yellow, as an homage to the location! But that’s SO predictable! And so on.
On the practical side: it’ll make my drive to work 60 miles, one way. It’s nearly three miles off the pavement. There’s a very steep hill that’s impassable when it snows. It’s a long way to the grocery store.
But this view. This wide and beautiful view…
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 5.29.2015
One Day | One Image 