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Glancy
Oh, man! What a find! An out of business hotel, complete with a sign with a lot of fonts, a nice variety of shapes, and the relics of some old neon.
And this was a fun find: the Clinton City Council voted unanimously in August 2019 to have the building demolished. Apparently that didn’t happen,: in 2021 the Clinton Economic Development Authority authorized $7.75 million to renovate the hotel and an adjoining restaurant.
From what I saw, it’ll take every bit of that money to renovate the place, which had, according to the second article, “fallen into a deep decline.”
Clinton, Oklahoma
photographed 10.10.2021
PJs
The windows at this out-of-business store were papered over, probably to keep people like me from peeking inside. However, a tape failure gave me the opportunity I was seeking. And I try to not let opportunities pass me by – I think they’re placed in my path for a reason – so I sure did look into the display window. And was richly rewarded by those pajamas. Although those buttons look like they are not very sleep-friendly, which may account for the pjs never selling.
Hereford, Texas
photographed 10.8.2021
twisted curtains
Maybe you saw yesterday’s post and happened to notice a window in the background? This is that same window, with a part of the left-behind thin curtains wrapped around the old wooden window frame and the other part flapping in the breeze.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
the ending was as unplanned as it was predictable
I was driving on a remote road in the Texas Panhandle when I spotted this abandoned farmhouse. Because the terrain was flat and the house was so big, I saw it for a while before I got to it. I debated stopping to photograph the place – I was on my way to the first day of a photographic journey and had a lot of project-related things to shoot before the sun went down. But I did stop, and it was worth it. As always when I see places like this, I was mystified at the things that had been left behind by the last occupants. This sofa did not make the cut, for reasons that will always remain unknown.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
Comes down to timing
It was one of those days at the end of the summer when it was still hot but you could sort of talk yourself into thinking that there was something in the air that made it feel like fall. Like a breeze that was a few degrees cooler. Or a dead leaf lifted by that same breeze and snagged on a power line.
(And this: I thought the photo was going to be about that old barn. The leaf changed that for me.)
Cookieville, Oklahoma
photographed 9.18.2021
One Day | One Image 