I first saw the movie Amadeus in high school. We watched it in band class (that’s how schools roll in rural Texas). I came away from the movie thinking (a) brief, fast-forwarded-through nudity — awesome and (b) it sucks to be Salieri.

I awoke last Friday to the first snowfall of the season — unusually late for Minnesota. If you happen to live anyplace where the temps dip into the lower register and stay there for long stretches, you know the first snowfall heralds the season of marathon commutes. If you listen carefully, I swear you can hear the entire working community dropping F-bombs.

Ahhh, the Texas Drought of 2011. This shot was taken while crossing the Pedernales Bridge west of Austin — I had wanted to document this view that I had seen several times over the past few months to show the docks scattered on the dry land where the receding water had left them, not noticing at the time that the first of those docks is now back on the water…