Backyard Nights

A few months ago, while I was a staffer working at the Midland Daily News, I began wandering the streets of Midland at night to interrupt nights of boredom or monotony. It turned into sort of a column and online blog at the paper and I went out with no real planning, no real focus other than to see what I could see at night.

Whatever you want to call it, an essay, a visual journal, whatever, I thought I would just leave it as something I did in Midland. But today, while working on my website and looking at those photos, something drew me back to that idea about a community at night. I see it as a personal project to explore things and push myself to see in a less literal way from how I have been approaching much of the daily assignments.

Today I had the day off, but with the primary results filtering in tonight, I decided to slip over and hang out at Kelly Ayotte's and Charlie Bass' watch parties down the road from my apartment. The two stayed in their no-access hotel rooms all night as supporters came and went. They finally spoke, briefly, somewhere around 11:40 p.m.