September 30

From the ferris wheel.

Panhandle South Plains Fair
Lubbock, Texas

photographed 9.29.2010

September 29

Look!  It's a twenty-five cent princess wand that only cost TWO DOLLARS!

BARGAIN!

Panhandle South Plains Fair
Lubbock, Texas

September 28

Look!

I found Jo's Barb R Sho!

Idalou, Texas

photographed 4.25.2010

September 27

We always thought this was the Law of the Universe:  every home plumbing repair will require three trips to Home Depot.

Turns out, I guess, that it is actually more of a suggestion.  Five trips and the toilet still leaks.

Lubbock, Texas

September 26

Maybe people who think that there isn't anything to see in the desert need to look a little harder.

Near Fort Davis, Texas

photographed 7.3.2005

September 25

"Look at that sad bit of hopefulness."

-my cousin Cameron, commenting on the 38 year gap since the last time Hobbs was the state champion

(He also said, "Right now, 'ambivalence' is my favorite word, but I don't know if that's a good idea."  Evidently some of this silliness is genetic.)

Hobbs, New Mexico

September 24

This is Round Two of my mad horticulture skills.

(Round One)

This plant is a member of the, uh, well, I believe it is a member of the plant family.  The spiky thing is spiky.  It grows well in the sun.  I think.

That is all.

September 23

at Windbreak House writing retreat

near Hermosa, South Dakota

photographed 10.21.2009

September 22

An abandoned farmhouse.

US 385
Lamb County, Texas

photographed 5.22.2010

September 21

One day - it was December 4, 2009 - I was in Muleshoe just behind a bit of a snowstorm.

It wasn't the first snowstorm that the Wallace Theater has ever seen.

Muleshoe, Texas

photographed 12.4.2009

September 20

This is...well, obviously you don't need me to explain.

Lubbock, Texas

September 19

After you get used to it, it's not that big a deal to have a little urn, with someone's ashes in it, on your property.

Is it?

September 18

Lawn chair.

53rd Street
Lubbock, Texas

September 17

Outside the Fields Building at 20th and Avenue Q
Lubbock, Texas

September 16

Beads on deerskin.

Thanks, Laurie.

September 15

This is the front of the Omni Parker House in downtown Boston.  It is the longest continuously operating luxury hotel in the country, but that's not why I took thie picture.  

I took the picture because of the row of green awnings and that gold clock and the reflection on the stone at the corner of the building.

Boston, Massachusetts

photographed 9.1.2010

September 14

The storm blew a leaf from the locust tree onto the glass.

Lubbock, Texas

photographed 6.14.2009

September 13

This'll be fun:  try staring at those white circles on the left until your eyes feel like they are popping out of your head.

How long did it take?

(Note to my eye doctor:  I really didn't stare at the circles.  I...uh...well, I just sort of glanced at them.  For about thirty seconds.  Or, no more than a minute or two, anyway.)

1st Street
Levelland, Texas

September 12

...and the sparks flew.

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas

photographed 9.11.2010

September 11

I was in Boston the other week, and saw this building-reflected-in-a-building.

photographed 8.31.2010

I'll be back...

...around mid-September.

On a break

I have suddenly and unexpectedly become weary of this project.  

So, I am on a break for a while.  I am not certain how long this break will be - I might be back tomorrow, it might not be until November, it might be never.

Thanks for looking at my photos, though.  And come back from time to time:  there may be new ones to look at.

August 10

Bases.
Vases.

Bases of vases.


Lubbock, Texas


(What in the world?  Was I, just for a minute, Dr. Seuss???)

August 9

Folks in Ralls, Texas, are very helpful.

So helpful, in fact, that they've labeled the buildings.  

Avenue G
Ralls, Texas

August 8

Shadows on my office wall.

Lubbock, Texas

August 7

Hello. 

Welcome to Flower Day here at the blog.  This is where I will tell you everything I know about the flower in the photograph:

1.  It is pink.  With yellow in the middle.
2.  There are four petals.
3.  That black speck is an ant.

That is all.

My horticultural knowledge is quite extensive.  Sometimes I know as many as four - Yes! Four! - things about a flower.

My in-laws back yard
Ransom Canyon, Texas

August 6

It's either funny or ridiculous (in a bad way) how I can get attached to things that ought to be insignificant.

One time, several years ago, I was in Austin.  My friend Jan and I went to her regular coffee place just before I headed home.  She told the Coffee Guy that I was coming to Lubbock and when he gave me the coffee, he'd added this very inspirational message on the lid.

And I've saved it.

It's just what I do.

Lubbock, Texas

August 5

Colin GIlmore, this evening
Buddy Holly Center
Lubbock, Texas

August 4

Nested cups.  Plastic.  Vintage.  More fun than you can imagine.

Lubbock, Texas

August 3

Auditorium, on the second floor
Close City School
Garza County, Texas

photographed 5.31.2010