fifi’s grafitti

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 […]

Baseball scoreboard at the Princeton community park and old water tower that is all that’s left of a World War II POW camp that housed German prisoners. Princeton is about 6 miles east of McKinney on Highway 380. A woman I met at my art class on Saturday told me there was a junk yard […]