I’ve got too many projects going on. I just can’t seem to keep them straight and since they’re not straight they must be twisted, right. I know this is twisted: the evolution of the Jack in the Box clown from an evil leering head to an evil corporate head. Logos as a reflection of our […]
Lately when the weather’s nice on my day off I’ve taken to exploring Collin County again. I know it’s a frivolous waste of gas, but it’s cheaper than going to the movies or eating out. It’s one of my luxuries in life. This was one of the signs at an old ranch outside Melissa, about […]
I’ve been searching through a lot of old digitized newspaper articles, and along with the text are lot of great old ads. Most of the graphics are obscured but you get the gist of what they represent. I found this old ad for “snake oil” and played around with photoshop to get a pattern on […]
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 […]
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 […]