Twenty-ten: the future! Over the past week, J. and I went around Dallas in search of hover-cars and autonomous robots and all we found was this:

Prickly pears in abundance outside Pandemonium Ltd.

Bushes outgrowing the sign.

A new coffee shop on Henderson: The Pearl Cup.

Foamy waters at the Nasher Sculpture Garden.

Water grasses.

J.’s parents looking skyward in Turrell’s skyspace, Tending (Blue).

The sky.

Walking on a pole.

Pippy sitting on a deer.

Pipe meets stump.

Slow drip Vietnamese coffee.

Vietnamese sandwich.

Pork vermicelli bowl.

The Casket Store near North Central Expressway.

Blue walls.

Letters missing.

Man in plaid walking down the road.

Ken’s Mufflers.

Drainage hole in Turtle Creek. Legend has it that a drunk driver’s car fell into this very hole.

Not quite a duck, not quite a turkey.

Fishing Cormorant on a tree.

Horizontal ripples caused by a landing duck.

Woodpecker hole.

Grizzlybeard and Sparkleeyes.

The gem.

Cactus in planter in the old offices near Exposition.

Abandoned office.

Four kinds of stone.

Warehouse and levee.

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Half demolished building.

An empty street with Reunion Tower in the distance.

Afternoon light.

1210.

Sign painted on hand-made bricks.

Tree shadow on a brick wall.

Texas Mill Equipment Company.

Spray-painted signage for a hairstylist on Singleton.

Laredos.

Taqueria Cordova.

Hand painted signs.

507 Singleton.

A menacing painting.

Muffler Sundays.

Morenos Tire Shop.

Train tracks at sunset.

A couple carrying a fake Christmas tree down the street.

SMOKE, a great barbeque restaurant on Ft. Worth Ave.

Hominy at SMOKE.

Whole hog sandwich.

Visiting my old stomping grounds: Sidney Lanier Elentery School.

A door splattered by something.

E. levitating like we did 20 years ago on the same poles.

J. on the pole.

Me and E.

Church.

Historic Eagle Ford schoolhouse on Chalk Hill Road.

Car scraps near the highway.

A hobo house.

Graffiti.

GLOCO Oil.

Yellow Cab building.

The old Forest Theater.

Falafel sandwich.

Abandoned cars on Jefferson in Grand Prairie.

New pipe.

Now I need to find a job.