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Fool The Guesser: Favorite Child #3
Fool the Guesser, photo by Sherry Justus

In a world of infinite photographic possibilities, it sometimes seems that there's nothing to take pictures of. Instead of disciplining yourself to take another look around your own trusty backyard, the beckoning promise of other locales encourages you to hit the road. Driving along, hoping to see something worth making a U turn for, is like winnowing the proverbial hay, looking for that needle's glint. Then again, sometimes someone else hands you an inadvertent gift. Such was the case with "Fool The Guesser." This amazingly random still life was spotted in the same Texas town that claims to contain the smallest Roman Catholic church in the world. (That type of blatant opportunity screams "Take my picture!" and here it is in the inset.) But a mysterious sign aligned with beautiful shapes and forms in someone else's backyard-now that is truly largesse. Possible encounters like this one make driving with one eye on the road and the other on the scrolling landscape worthwhile. And they ensure that the siren song of the road will be heard again.

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Child #7

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