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Walking home the other day I saw a greasy looking tapered rope lying across the sidewalk. The rope was actually a snake, and after we stared at each other for a while it backed up and turned around and went into the dark hole in the upper right of the picture. The gutter cover block in the photo is of standard size, and if you walk on it (the block, not the snake) you can hear that clunky blocky sound that those blocks make. I don’t know what snakes sound like if you step on them, but I do know what they sound and look like once they get shot out of a lawn mower. I related that story a few years later in high school and another kid said he had once gone over a little nest of baby rabbits with a riding mower. Hopefully he was just trying to one-up my (true) story but his was believable. Rabbits are everywhere in Nebraska, and on that day in his yard they literally were everywhere.

Sometimes out in western Nebraksa you can find bald eagles dead on the ground under a powerline. I think this crow had the same kind of bad timing- when he was about to take off one of his wings may have touched a line while his feet were still on another wire. He completed the circut and that was that.

The area I live in has a lot of big dogs and old men. I am getting good at avoiding the puddles I come across along walls against the sidewalk.

Matthew Mahon will talk about his work to you.

Mich Epstein makes me want to shoot in color.

What makes Lee Friedlander’s pictures good? asks and answers Lee Siegel.

This was on James Luckett’s site.