Sometime in 2014 I started taking digital pictures with a digital camera that my wife had. We'd used it before, on vacations or special occasions, like animals' birthdays or whatever, but since we went on dog walks daily, & there were things that amused me, I started taking pictures & then sharing them, first on Facebook, then on Tumblr. I don't do Instagram, I can't imagine having one more social media platform to worry about. & yes, I know Instagram is all about the pictures & Tumblr is played out. It turns out I'm a creature of habit.
The pictures I take show what a creature of habit I am. This image is from Fort Worth, taken on this day three years ago. At the time, I didn't know it would be my last fall in Texas. It was a Tuesday, which was probably the day I did the shopping. It was also the day I did my show on KNON, so I was on the road a lot that day. But that was living in Texas. In a car two hours a day. No matter what.
Anyway, I took this picture thinking it might be interesting (it's not, not in the way I thought it might be) but it's only really interesting to me. It's the way I drove home from Costco. I went that way because the way I had done previously became a clusterfuck thanks to road maintenance. Also a constant with living in Texas. Everyone's on the road so the roads have to be widened, repaired, etc.
The picture is looking west so I'm driving north, to a frontage road, which will take me to the road I was avoiding near the Costco. The highways are part of the reason it was a clusterfuck. Many Texas drivers wait until the last possible moment to get into the lane that's the onramp to the highway. & many Texas drivers drive huge-ass SUVs that will crush my little Prius without a second thought.
The point I wanted to make is that this uninteresting picture serves as a sort of page from my photo diary. I haven't thought about that trip, that weekly trip I made, in many months. It seems longer ago than just three years. But they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Microsoft word tells me this is under four hundred.
The pictures I take show what a creature of habit I am. This image is from Fort Worth, taken on this day three years ago. At the time, I didn't know it would be my last fall in Texas. It was a Tuesday, which was probably the day I did the shopping. It was also the day I did my show on KNON, so I was on the road a lot that day. But that was living in Texas. In a car two hours a day. No matter what.
Anyway, I took this picture thinking it might be interesting (it's not, not in the way I thought it might be) but it's only really interesting to me. It's the way I drove home from Costco. I went that way because the way I had done previously became a clusterfuck thanks to road maintenance. Also a constant with living in Texas. Everyone's on the road so the roads have to be widened, repaired, etc.
The picture is looking west so I'm driving north, to a frontage road, which will take me to the road I was avoiding near the Costco. The highways are part of the reason it was a clusterfuck. Many Texas drivers wait until the last possible moment to get into the lane that's the onramp to the highway. & many Texas drivers drive huge-ass SUVs that will crush my little Prius without a second thought.
The point I wanted to make is that this uninteresting picture serves as a sort of page from my photo diary. I haven't thought about that trip, that weekly trip I made, in many months. It seems longer ago than just three years. But they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Microsoft word tells me this is under four hundred.
