The acorns have ceased their relentless attacks. They’ve been raining down on us every time we go out the back door as the oak trees’ mounted their last protest against the changing weather. Even Phoebe was ducking her head every time something whoosed past. Now the trees are dropping their leaves as autumn rushes toward […]
It was a beautiful day yesterday, but I have so many chores around the house I had to take a day off from cemeteries. So here’s a shot from Warden Cemetery, my current transcription project. I often see these metal funeral home markers stuck in the ground next to a gravestone, which is nice, because […]
You see them on a long lonely stretch of highway, or near an exit ramp of a city freeway, or just beyond the sidewalk of a busy intersection; roadside memorials erected for someone who died on that spot. It’s an old Latin tradition, though I’m not sure if it dates from old Mexico or from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Here’s another cemetery I found while exploring Collin County. It was nice and peaceful and shaded by a canopy of oaks and pecan trees. There were lots of orb-weaver spiders with giant webs and chickadees and mockingbirds singing in the trees. There were only about 25 gravestones that were legible, so I decided to […]
Last Friday I explored a bit of Collin County. In Dallas County the City of Dallas sprawls across most of the geographic area, with a few large suburban cities joined to it shoulder to shoulder. In Collin County there are dozens of small towns, not yet suburbs but not quite rural. I’ve been shooting water […]