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High Lonesome

High Lonesome is where visuals and a feeling mesh. It’s a one-room bus stop near desert mountains, blue and bright enough to lift the sky.

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Solar Eclipse

If the weather forecast had been better, we would have chased totality. Instead, we stayed home, where the estimated cloud cover was 10%, west of San Angelo.

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Changing Barstow

Barstow, Texas (2010, 2021)

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Sandhills

Monahans Sandhills State Park, Windmill, and Texas & Pacific Section House

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Pecos

Mile-long trains dashed across desolate plains. I sat in our 70’s Buick Skylark, listened to Hank Williams on cassette, and let derelict buildings fill my eyes. My mother accepted a teaching job in Pecos during the eighties oil bust.