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

Wellhouse

The wellhouse at the abandoned farm slowly sheds its stucco coating.

Nazareth, Texas
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


Sky Vuew (actual spelling)


Quite possibly my favorite sign ever.

Lubbock County, Texas
Feburary 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