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Not too much service any more
Just another one of the many abandoned service stations in shrinking towns on the Plains.
On an important historical note, the most expensive pig ever sold was owned by a Hermleigh resident. Jefferey Roemisch of Hermleigh sold his cross-breed barrow* named “Bud” for a record breaking $56,000 in 1983 to a man named Bud Olson and his partner, Phil Bonzio. I thought you’d want to know.
Hermleigh, Texas
photographed 3.20.2016
* Were you wondering what a “barrow” is? Yes, I thought you were.
Curvilinear
I am very fond of the way that piece of plywood has almost the very same curve as the leaf springs do.
Sundown, Texas
photographed 5.14.2016
A slow creeping
The kitchen windowsill from the same house in yesterday’s post. That’s quite a healthy collection of cobwebs, isn’t it? And how about that thick coating of dust on everything?
Levelland, Texas
photographed 5.6.2016
Four legs (and one hump)
(By the time you see this post, this place will have been demolished: someone’s home is becoming a parking lot.)
Levelland, Texas
photographed 5.6.2016
The Aftermath
One down, one to go.
This is not an uncommon sight around here, where the uncertainties of farming, the need of fewer people to work the same crops, the (periodic) rise of the oil and gas industries, the increasing population of elderly people, and other factors mean that walking away and letting nature take its course is a common decision.
For what it’s worth, I saw a bedpan, a hymnbook, and a straw hat in the rubble.
Lynn County, Texas
photographed 4.19.2016
