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If you need a sofa
Maybe, after all these stay-at-home months, you’ve gotten weary of your place. And maybe you’re thinking a change in furnishings might be just what you need to lift your spirits. And maybe you’re thinking specifically of acquiring a different sofa.
If this sounds like you, please get in touch: I know where you can find one.
Roby, Texas
photographed 5.22.2020
A pair of shoes and a flyswatter
If conditions permit, I will always peer inside an out-of-business business: I have a strange fascination with seeing what things were not important enough to have been taken. The best things I spotted here were the flyswatter hanging on the wall, and a pair of Crocs.
But that wall just behind the Crocs has a story, too. Someone had really good intentions – they framed it and installed the gyp board, but somehow the taping/floating/painting steps never happened.
Aspermont, Texas
photographed 5.23.2020
Many sheets of plywood
It took many sheets of plywood to cover the windows at this un-used elementary school.
Hamlin, Texas
photographed 5.23.2020
Shade-tree Mechanic
The place is more or less equipped to fix your car, right there between the vanishing sign and the road, and (if you get there in the morning), you can even wait in the shade.
Roby, Texas
photographed 5.22.2020
Dermabrasion
It seemed like the door and the concrete block wall were getting facials, with all the dead stuff falling away.
In other news, this is the same town where in 1996 42 residents pooled their money and purchased 430 lottery tickets. And they won a $46 million jackpot. The money didn’t reverse the fortunes of the town, the way maybe you’d hope it would have. You might want to read this Texas Monthly article for the long, sad tale.
Roby, Texas
photographed 5.22.2020
One Day | One Image 