The Long Road, Salado

Salado, TX. This one is about the road as much as the longhorn — the fence rail pulling you toward the vanishing point, the overcast sky pressing down, and one animal completely indifferent to all of it. I was already back at the car when I turned around and saw this framing. Texas Longhorns were nearly wiped out by the late 1800s as ranchers shifted to meatier breeds, and the federal government quietly stepped in to preserve them — so every one of these animals grazing along a Central Texas roadside is, in a small way, a recovery story. This one didn't know that. It just kept eating.

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