Imagine just this moment in time you’re dying of consumption in the High Plains of Texas. It’s August 1906, when the air is at its height of being hot, dry and stale. There might be an occasional breeze, but it does nothing to cool you. You’re coughing up blood mixed with phlegm because your lungs…
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Where My Photography Began
In going through photos for a recent project, I came across this image. I sighed and smiled. It brought back tons of memories of this place I grew to love. The one memory I always tend to forget – this place was the beginning of my photography. It was here I learned how to…
Read MoreHaunting Photograph of Ethel
In a Llano Estacado cemetery, a lone tombstone remains hauntingly untouched by time and from the elements of nature and man. It’s rare when you come across a perfectly decades old intact tombstone and photo ceramic gravestone marker in this region. Often the photos are damaged by high winds carrying sand and dirt or…
Read MoreDon’t Open Your Mouth if You Don’t Know the Facts
Note: Ginny Phillips and I worked on saving the historic Mallet Ranch Headquarters in southwest Hockley County for over two years. As a scholar and researcher, I covered all my bases with my research and we went above and beyond in showing why this historic site was important to preserve in situ. We published a…
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Forgotten Winds 