love/boat
I’ve been watching this location for about 15 years or so. It’s a few blocks from my office and it’s got an odd set of stuff. A cotton gin, to start with, right in the middle of town. (Cotton gins are very dirty during ginning season and not really the sort of local business that needs to be right in town.) And then there’s this boat graveyard. The boats change from time to time, but there’s always some there. None of them have motors, or seats, or life jackets: it’s just fiberglass husks of past glory .
This one, with a slight error in the Bible quote, has been there since 2021. I’m trying to imagine the circumstances that led to the decision to put a proselytizing boat in a field beside a cotton gin.
And I can’t come with a single thing. Mysterious ways and all that, I guess.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
broken home
Here’s something else I spotted on my work trip the other day.
Clearly, this mobile home encountered something disastrous and I went back on Saturday to give it a further look.
It was new: as I walked up I could smell the new wood and the weird out-gassing smell of plastic laminate or flooring or whatever.
And also, is it just me, or does the part of the wall that’s just below the power pole look like part of an eye?
Lynn County, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
flat/screen
Last week I had to drive to Tahoka for a meeting; on the drive I kept my eyes open for future photos.
This farmhouse was one of the things I saw and it was my first stop on a weekend photo-drive.
Every one of these old houses looks basically the same on the inside, with crap just piled up everywhere. But then again, each one is different. I’ve seen shoes and clothes and books and dolls and tires and jars of applesauce.* This one featured not only a deceased rat lying on its back on the sofa, like it was taking a little nap, but it also had the morning light coming through windows and a broken flat-screen television.
Lynn County, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
*I first wrote “jars of applesauce and tires” which sounds like an impossible thing but also sounds like something I’d really like to see.
hammond
I have issues. Not in general (although of course I do have quite a few general issues) – but with the things in this photo.
First of all, it bothers me a lot that the star on the hot-cold thing is wrong side up. I can almost understand the decision to point in down toward the round thing* but, it is just wrong.
But what gets me even more is that cloud that has a hand (A hand! What the hell?) growing out of the bottom of it.
And let’s not even get into the discussion about if the building that’s held by the cloud-hand is supposed to be a hand-held size or if the cloud-hand is actually gigantic enough to hold an entire building.
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
*to use the technical term
educate my mind
Hello and welcome to today’s feature Using AI to Explain a Simple Concept with A Lot of Words.
Today’s Simple Concept is a building elevation, which is (according to Google’s AI Overview) a two-dimensional, scaled, orthographic projection showing a vertical view of a structure’s exterior or interior face (usually north, south, east, and west). It illustrates crucial details like building height, materials, rooflines, window placements, and doors, providing a flat, straight-on view to aid in construction and design visualization.
Or, you could also call it a “side view” or “the side” or even “a wall” if you’re less inclined toward verbosity.
Saint Charles Borromeo Church
Grand Coteau, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017
One Day | One Image 