Monthly Archives: August 2019
Brodimatic
The other day, on a jaunt to Plainview, I found this thing, this jumble of hoses and other stuff. The thing on top is a Brodimatic; you probably already knew that it’s a gas meter pump counter, but I had to google it…
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Telephone Directory
See that bag on the ground in front of the door? It’s the new telephone directory. That raises a few questions, doesn’t it?
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Slow death is certain
There’s only one way this is going to end: in a pile on the ground surrounded by weeds and covered over by the big sky. It won’t happen quickly, probably, but it will happen.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Getting our hopes up
Our summer started out with cool weather and more-than-normal rainfall. But it soon got over that, and now it seems like maybe it’s never rained here. Ever. Not even a drop. And it’s hot, too – at or above 100 degrees for days at a time.
And that makes it seem like maybe this sign is being unnecessarily cruel.
(I am heading shortly to Chicago for a conference, where the high temperatures are forecast to be in the 70s. My work colleague and I had a discussion about packing; neither one of us can recall the right kind of clothes for that sort of weather.)
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
One Day | One Image 