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Left behind: flouncy curtains in a wood-paneled room.
Left behind: dreams that didn’t survive reality.
Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014
Trees like a cage
These trees are keeping the house from escaping. Or from falling down.
Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014
Drawn by a five year old
You know the way little kids draw a house, with a square on the bottom and a lopsided triangle balanced on top? And a skinny chimney coming out perpendicular to the roof?
Except for not having a chimney, that’s what this old place looks like to me.
FM 836
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014
For safekeeping
The windows in what the old-timers must surely call “the Cadillac house” were broken, so naturally I looked in. And found this old truck, which was once important enough to store inside a building. I’d guess that the reasons for storing it have faded away and it’s there out of habit as much as for any other reason.
But it was a nice thing to see through a broken window.
Spur, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014
Where chairs go to die
This shot required the usual two u-turns on the highway. By the time I’d realized I was seeing a building that was falling down AND was full of old chairs, we’d already driven by. U-turn #1 got us back so I could get some shots of the place.
What a sight – all those chairs getting a bit of sun on a winter afternoon.
There was also a ginger cat having a bit of a rest on one of the softer chairs. He just blinked at me, yawned, and closed his eyes. I guess photographers stop so frequently that they are of little interest to a cat who needs his rest.
Later, I leaned against the car to pull stickers out of my shoes, then with u-turn #2 safely executed, we were back on the road.
Dickens, Texas
photographed 12.25.2013
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