© Ryan Schierling
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
12.01.2010
6.27.2010
We are known by the flags we fly highest.
Old and faded glory, abandoned car lot on N. Burnet. © Ryan Schierling
The Lone Star flag, state capitol, great Republic of Texas. © Ryan Schierling
5.29.2010
On the road - Comfort, Texas.
Comfort, TX. Polaroid. © Ryan Schierling
There are days in life when you will vehemently search for truth and meaning in your personal landscape, and you will find yourself disappointed. Sometimes, you will settle for facsimile, and discover it still can bring a smile to your face.
5.26.2010
5.23.2010
The light through the trees.
1. The sudden light through the trees. 2. The light through the trees. 3. The light through the sudden trees. © Ryan Schierling
3.14.2010
Un-plug, plug-in, un-plug.
82nd Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival. © Ryan Schierling
We started our Sunday waiting for one cable technician, waiting for a two-hour window to open and close, waiting to end our three-day drought with no internet. Technology is occasionally a frustrating child, unwilling to cooperate, throwing a tantrum of ones and zeroes and disobeying the simplest of commands (pleas). The lights on the cable modem just kept blinking, and blinking, and blinking – no send, no recieve, no in, no out – just power and a tired, blinking cable light.
The tech showed, went through the un-plug, plug-in, un-plug, plug-in routine, and finally had to scale a fence into our neighbor's yard to suss out the problem at the cable junction box. Long story short, internet restored. Faith restored. Hope restored. Connectivity, resumed.
Happy just to know it was there, we abandoned the emails and the internets for Hippie Church and tacos at Maria's Taco Xpress, and to go fly kites at Zilker Park.
3.10.2010
11.29.2009
Suburban forest.
Christmas trees, H-E-B grocer. © Ryan Schierling, via iPhone.
We're exploring, as new settlers do. Finding the great grocery stores, the great hardware stores, the great cat food stores, the great garden stores. Austin is vast and full of promise.
11.01.2009
On the road - Vega, Texas.
My chariot (w/ corn dog air freshener). Vega, Texas. © Ryan Schierling
We had to pull over for a quick pick-me-up cup of coffee in Vega, Texas. But, somehow, I always end up with the same thing at every convenience store when we're traveling... beef jerky and strawberry milk.
10.31.2009
On the road - Moab, Utah.
Exploring America's wide open (parking) spaces. Arches National Park, Utah. © Ryan Schierling
I'm sure Arches National Park has been in National Geographic a bit. Maybe you've seen postcards of it. Certainly you've seen images of the incredible red sandstone cliffs and towering arches (probably with a mountain biker in silhouette) on an office wall motivational poster pushing you toward what must be inevitable success.
It is an incredible, beautiful, nearly alien landscape.
No mid-afternoon photograph I could take after nearly three days on the road can do it justice. All I want is a hot shower, a cold beer, and to never drive all of our belongings (with my car attached to them) halfway across the country ever again.
Austin is still two days away.
On the road - Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Outlaw Inn (attached to drive-in liquor store). Rock Springs, Wyoming. © Ryan Schierling
Our intended route was to drive across Wyoming, drop down into Colorado through Cheyenne, skirt Denver and head east through Kansas.
Four feet of snow in eastern Wyoming changed that pretty quickly. We learned when we stopped for gas at Point of Rock, that I-80 had been shut down from Rawlins to Cheyenne – roughly 150 miles of highway – with no detour routes available. We thought about waiting out the storm until a stranded trucker told us about the thousands of semi trucks lining the highway, 20+ miles deep, patiently queued up for the interstate to reopen. To make matters worse, the highway from the Wyoming border to Denver was closed, and so was I-70 heading west from the Kansas border into Colorado. Forward progress was impossible.
We turned around and stopped for the night in Rock Springs.
10.29.2009
On the road - Twin Falls, Idaho.
Motel, night one/day two. Twin Falls, Idaho. © Ryan Schierling
There's nothing like sneaking four yowling, wary, road-weary, freaked-out cats into a motel room after driving for a kazillion hours. I've got to hand it to J for establishing protocol early in the trip and keeping the kids on the down low.
7.23.2009
7.15.2009
Remnants of the past.
© Ryan Schierling, via iPhone.
"Some days, it seemed like an entire lifetime ago — as though he should be in an off-season tourist-town coffee shop on a beach boardwalk, wrinkled and weathered in the twilight of the day, in the twilight of his life, habitually clutching an ancient rangefinder camera and a thick cup of bitter coffee — remembering her freckles, her laughter, her youth, and that someone loved him like that, like no other..."
© Ryan Schierling
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