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.