Mired in, and slowly overtaken by, grassland, the barn is slowly sinking.
Road B, Hale County, Texas
December 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
St. Anthony has two visitors
On a wall behind St. Anthony Catholic Church, St. Martin and the Virgin of Guadalupe pay a visit.
Pecos, New Mexico
Ritzy Lady
The best things to see in downtowns are the backs of buildings. I enjoy the contrast between the shop's name and, well, everything else.
Littlefield, Texas
December 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Buttresses, flying
This empty farm building in Ralls, Texas, is held up by a series of ad hoc flying buttresses.
Ralls
Crosby County, Texas
November 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Yesterday's News
The store in Hart Camp represents one third of the town's buildings; the front page photo in yesterday's Avalanche Journal, in the machine out front, is faded from the autumn sun.
Hart Camp, Texas
September 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Empty Sign
There surely is a reason that an empty sign would be decorated with clear Christmas lights. In September. I just don't happen to know what it is.
Hart, Texas
September 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Jesus on a Stick
The sign arching over the entry gates to the small cemetery said Camposanto de Cedar Creek. This Jesus head, wired to a wooden post, was the creepiest item there.
Bastrop County, Texas
2008
Bust looking away
A weathered stone face gazes, with great patience and serenity, across the field to a distant folly.
Wimpole Hill
Cambridgeshire, England
Desolation
If you can crouch in the middle of the road to better frame a photograph of looming mountains, you are probably on State Highway 166.
Jeff Davis County
Texas
Tahoka Wall
That wintry Sunday, the most activity in downtown Tahoka was paint and stucco peeling away from a wall.
Tahoka, Texas
2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Turquoise and Pink
Austin, Texas
July 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
16 de setiembre
Mexico City
September 2003
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Greek Dancers
The sounds of shoes stomping on a wooden dance platform pulled me away from the line for baklava....
Festival at
Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Denver, Colorado
June 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Church Windows
Every Sunday of my childhood, I would stare at the stained glass windows at Forrest Heights Methodist Church. The windows had a better message than the sermons.
I am still drawn to church windows.
These four are from England (top to bottom):
St. James's Church
Avebury, Wiltshire
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, Hampshire
Greensted Church
near Chipping Ongar
Essex
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, Kent
October 2007
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Between the car park and the Abbey
On the walk along the new car park and tearoom, an ancient statue-with-a-mask oversees the dribble of tourists making their way to see the Abbey and lode mill.
(The Abbey was recently renovated into a private home. In 1609.)
Anglesey Abbey
Cambridgeshire, England
October 2007
Saturday, May 24, 2008
A matter of opinion
"The tropics are too goddam vivid."SwittersFierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"You may be right."M. HarveyNassau, BahamasMay 2004
The back of an angel's head
Why wouldn't a trumpet-playing angel statue, on the beach at a Caribbean resort, have wings on its head?
Nassau, Bahamas
May 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
After the rain
If you hike up the mountain behind the lodge at Davis Mountains State Park, and you are just behind the rain, the desert will start to get greener while you hike.And if you keep hiking, all the way up, the clouds will sag so low that across the valley, the observatory's huge white domes are gone.And without the usual white-bright sun, you might get disoriented.
Fort Davis, Texas
September 2006
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Vegetable Market
On my trip to San Francisco, I didn't get a single photograph of a cable car...but I did see these excellent carrots at the Ferry Building.San Francisco
July 2005
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Luther Miles
It was a remote cemetery; all the headstones were broken, but someone had carefully stacked them in place.From a nearby mobile home, we could hear people shouting at each other, the reverberations nearly strong enough to have knocked over the grave markers.
South Church Cemetery
Collin County, Texas
March 2008
Mesquite Winter
During the winter of record harvests, the thorns of a bare mesquite limb caught drifts of cotton from the field.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
February 2008
My Prickly Heart
What would make a prickly pear pad grow in the shape of a heart?
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
January 2008
Greenville Gas Station
Earlier efforts to put yellow paint over blue tile were not a success at this out-of-business gas station.
Greenville, Texas
March 2008
Farm Stand
We had to wake her up first.
Then while she sold us three oranges and a bag of stale pecans, the farm stand lady told us her life story, ending with the viewing of a 1950s-era high school prom photo of her son, who'd died only two weeks before our visit.
Greenville, Texas
March 2008
Hut - Yellowhouse Canyon
The hut squats on the edge of the canyon, where the rising moon keeps careful watch over its disintegration.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
March 2008
Texas Farm Truck
Discarded farmhouses dot the plains. And not just houses, but barns and wells and henhouses and trucks, too.
Nazareth, Texas
2008
Gin and Cigs
I was photographing a the half-building remnant of freeway construction when I spotted a gin bottle in the gutter. That made my day.
Lubbock, Texas
March 2008
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