Old County Cemetery

A crystal ball, and a Bible.

Old County Cemetery
Brownfield, Texas

Sunday morning in Bridgeport, Nebraska

Sure, the Rock N Horse Lounge is closed on Sunday mornings, but the Midtown Diner, just across the street is doing a brisk breakfast business.

I can recommend the biscuits and gravy.

Bridgeport, Nebraska
October 2009

Pink Agave

Wouldn't it be cool if agave really DID look like this?

McCamey, Texas

A Garage in Marfa

If you are coming into Marfa from Fort Davis, and it happens that the Marfa Lights Festival's street fair has the main street through town closed (where it makes that dog-leg onto Highland Street), and you decide to park and check out the Festival (Because what the hell? You're on vacation.), you might notice this little garage, with a tenacious spike of greenery poking through the weathered wooden doors.

Marfa, Texas

The racetrack on the south side of town

The concession stand at a racetrack on the south side of McCamey, Texas

Old Chair in a Sad House

A flock of vultures rose from a dead tree, spiraling skyward, complaining all the way.

The brown lizard guarded the gate to the abandoned house, but the gate was redundant: the fence on either side had fallen over and a single high step could grant admittance to the yard, the house, the ghosts.

Sears bills from 1970 were scattered on the floor in a room that no longer had an outside wall. On the other side, this chair, pushed close to what had been a window, suffered the ill effects of decades of rain, and mice.

County Road 219
Hays County, Texas

Somewhere in Central Texas

near Manheim, in Lee County, Texas

Outriggered Arrow

This is the best arrow I have ever seen. It's got good colors, with fine contrast. It's got an outrigger to help stabilize. It stands out against the surroundings.

The only thing missing is my understanding of what it is pointing to!

June 2009
Lake Ransom Canyon, Texas

Comfort AND Value...

This is a suggestion for those folks who find the 15 minute walk from their hotel rooms to the street at those big hotels to be a little much: this cozy street-side room at the Yucca Motel. The Yucca is located on the Strip, so you aren't going to sacrifice any of that famous Vegas excitement.

I imagine this room gets booked up pretty fast, so you may want to plan way in advance.

May 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada

Desert Color

The Springs Preserve in Las Vegas is wonderful. It's an oasis from the lunacy of the strip, and you can see all sorts of desert landscaping.

And, a parking lot shaded by rows and rows of solar panels.

May 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas

I tried. Really, I did. But I just can't understand Las Vegas.

There are, however, lots of things to photograph.

Las Vegas, Nevada
2009

Under the milky sky of winter

Under the milky blue-white winter sky, last summer's weeds creep toward the abandoned farmhouse.  It won't last much longer:  the dead elm tree has delivered the coup de grace.

There are thousands of houses like this on the Great Plains.

Lamb County, Texas

2008

The barn on Road B

Mired in, and slowly overtaken by, grassland, the barn is slowly sinking.

Road B, Hale County, Texas

December 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

If, only....

Dallas, Texas

October 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

Dumont Baptist Church

There is only one church in Dumont.

Dumont

King County, Texas

November 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

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