fifi’s grafitti

variation on a sketch by Harry Clarke, 1919.

I’ve got to remember to bring my macro lens with me next time I go shooting cemteries. These quiet places are ideal worlds for many small life forms. Here’s a nice jumping spider I chased round and round the headstone trying to capture a likeness. I might have missed the little critter but for the […]

Sometimes I like to play with Photoshop’s filters. I don’t use them much in my photography, but they’re nice for creating illustrations. I found a site called The Altered Heart, a weekly prompt for creating a piece of art containing a heart-shape. The word prompt this week is “weather/weathered” and this is what I came […]

It’s raining today and I’m not going to work. There was hardly anything to do yesterday except to babysit the output machine, so I called in to see if there would be anything for me to do today. There isn’t. I was bored stiff yesterday and didn’t look forward to a day with even less […]

This week I went to Anna, another small town north of McKinney that’s becoming another suburb. It’s sad that the prairie is being turned into subdivisions, but at least I can document a few of the “rustic” things before they’re gone. I was looking for a cemetery that I never found and spotted the corner […]

The land is pretty flat out here on the prairie. For the last few months I’ve enjoyed looking at the bales of hay scattered about some of the larger tracts of grassland. They look so pretty when the sun shines on them in the morning or late afternoon. I have a photo I took of […]

….anyway, I thought it was a birdhouse, but it’s not; it’s just a planter. Still, it looked pretty with its mini-pumpkins.
I finally got out for a brisk ten-minute walk this morning. My “health counselor”, a nurse attached to some company in Arizona which has contracted with my employer to call people to assist them with […]

When I drive home at night the only letters that light up on this sign are “PI”, reminding me of “The Life of Pi”? The Theory of Relativity? The cantankerous nature of neon lights? One of my drive-time pass-times is to note which lights are burned out and how long it takes to fix them. […]

This is a detail from an old railroad car parked on a siderail in Celina, another town I visited for the first time.
Monday morning and I’m trying to wake up from hibernation mode. Rolling thunder crackled and exploded most of the night, accompanied by nearly nonstop lightning flashes. Poor Phoebe! Our sweet puppy is terrified […]

Here’s the overgrown cemetery I found during my explorations on Friday. The plowed field next to it where I was standing to take this photo had a paper “no trespassing” sign precariously attached to a fencepost nearby, but a wire section had been removed or had never been put up as if to allow access […]