Old County Cemetery

A crystal ball, and a Bible.

Old County Cemetery
Brownfield, Texas

Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells

The once-grand Baker Hotel - where celebrities once came to "take the water" - has fallen on hard times.

Mineral Wells, Texas

photographed 8.15.2010

Magenta, and a raindrop

Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center

Austin, Texas

I'd name him "Einstein"

Don't you think this caterpillar looks that should be his name?

Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
Austin, Texas

Wild Aster

The recent rains have made the wild asters very happy

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas

Sometimes an open door leads nowhere

Like here, at the defunct Southland Hardware Cafe.

Southland, Texas

Muleshoe and a Musical

It looks like we missed the "new musical" by about ten years, but is nice that the mural is still around to remind us.

But the best part, don't you think, is the name "Paula Paul"?

December 2009
Muleshoe, Texas

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

National Ranching Heritage Center

A stone wall, and a roof made from logs.

National Ranching Heritage Center

Lubbock, 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

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

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