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The Arizona adobe home was built around the 1920s by Lon Megargee, who was the designer of the Stetson Hat logo and a cowboy painter. What caught my attention in this composition was how the cactus was framed by the roof lines, windows, and other elements, creating a nestling effect around the wild organic shape in the middle.

In my solo wanderings in the Big Bend region, it doesn’t take much for me to experience a deep drama about simply being there in that spot at that moment. I attempt to translate that in a visual way with my camera. Hopefully it’s worth sharing.

Necessity is the mother of invention, but it can also be the seed of genius. In the Big Bend area of southwest Texas, providing shade is an art form. This is my spot all this week. This kind of broken shade, made by laying readily available ocotillo across overhead beams, is perfect in that it blends hard sun with coal black shade. It’s visually stimulating, yet it’s also soothing. It’s loud and quiet at the same time. Even a gringo can sit outside for long spells enjoyably.