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Happy

A dog barks, tin clanks, and wind whooshes across dormant branches.

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Seeing Layers

The 50mm lens is more front-to-back than side-to-side and compresses things together, perfect for layering foregrounds over backgrounds.

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Sunset Limited

With a ticket, backpack, and several rolls of Kodak Gold, I watched Amtrak’s Sunset Limited coast to a stop at Alpine, 2 PM, would reach Los Angeles at 9 AM, December 2005.

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Comet

On October 23rd, we went west of Penwell to see the comet.

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Small Town, Big Dreams

Welcome to Wink, home of the Wildcats.

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Solar Eclipse

We would have chased totality if the forecast had been better, but we stayed in West Texas.

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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 a desolate plain. 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.