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Window Frame/Window (framed)

A frame, then a frame, inside another batch of frames. And some jagged glass, too, just to keep things interesting.

Simms, Texas
photographed 11.13.2021

they continued to maintain an open-door policy

 

I have looked inside many abandoned buildings. And I will never, ever be able to accurately predict what I’ll see. I did not expect a kitchen in the back corner of this building that had a faded Lions Club emblem on the front. I didn’t imagine that all the doors would be open – or in that one case, hanging from a single hinge. And I didn’t even know that at one point the top shelves of dishwasher were a space-wasting circular design.

Photography: it’s educational!

Simms, Texas
photographed 11.13.2021

Leftovers

The silvery mylar on the out-of-business store made me feel like I was a foil-wrapped leftover. I know: my mind *is* very random, but don’t even act like you just now noticed.

Olton, Texas
photographed 11.12.2021

En Suite

Here’s another abandoned farmhouse – you can see another view of it here – and it was pretty fancy back in its day, which you can clearly imagine by looking at the en suite bathroom. (“En suite” is a term I never, ever, would use in regular conversation, but it came to mind when I looked through the window and saw that sink way over there on the bathroom wall.)

Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 11.13.2021

The Way Alice Left It

Based on the refrigerator magnets still in place at this abandoned farmhouse, a woman named Alice once lived here.  I don’t know when she left, or why. All I know is that the house was full of what her life had been.

Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 11.12.2021