It’s been a while since any roofing business was conducted here, at the Adolph Roofing Company, on the corner of 8th Street and Texas Avenue. One of the big windows on the front is boarded up. The vinyl blinds on the other one are in a yellowed heap on one side. There’s still a mailbox, though, but it’s thick with accumulated dirt and pigeon droppings.
Inside the building – this scene, which for some reason makes me think of the church in Terlingua.
Maybe it’s the table along the far wall, giving the effect of an altar? Or the bright, beckoning light coming from those windows? Or maybe it’s just me. (You’re right: it’s just me. Forget I brought it up.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.2.13
Mar 10
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Along the way, a few things happened. First. I was well into my adult years before it occurred to me that I am most comfortable below a big sky, staring at a long horizon. Once that realization struck – and I cannot explain why it took so long to arrive – I’ve not gone a […]
An empty building in downtown Lubbock.
photographed 3.2.13
Sometimes I can’t help it. I get completely out of control, throw caution to the wind. I forget my vision, I forsake my followers.
And then this happens: I post a photograph of a new building.
I’ll try to not let it happen very often.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 2.16.2013
One Day | One Image 