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.
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.
Changing Barstow
Barstow, Texas (2010, 2021)
Sandhills
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Windmill, and Texas & Pacific Section House
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.