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welding

This right here is what happens when you can’t commit to one font and decide to try a variety of them.

Also, the place appeared to be out of business, but that’s probably not directly related to the signage situation. As far as I know.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.7.2025

tricks to trucks

It was right about in here the other night, as we drove around so I could photograph stuff from the car window, that a woman in a white truck seemed to find our actions suspicious enough to warrant her keeping an eye on what we were doing. She followed us all the way through the neighborhood and for a few miles after we left. I guess she wanted to make sure we were REALLY leaving. Or (and this is less likely) she was wanting to copy my Artistic Technique.

Either way: we made it home.

But aside from all that, the sign that says “tricks to trucks” makes me laugh. I want it to be the title of some sort of redemption tale of a sex worker who found her true calling as a truck mechanic.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025

the hangers on

I’d seen this building before, from the adjacent interstate, but had never gone past the “I should probably go over and look at that” part of my thought process.

Finally, the other night, I did get over there. And I have plans to return: it really was more interesting than I thought it was going to be.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025

home, reduced

This old farmhouse had been reduced. Not in the real estate way of a price reduction for a quick sale, but more in the “push all a’ that house up in a pile and Herschel or one a’ them’s gonna come by an’ burn it. Once that dad-blame wind stops.”

Posey, Texas
photographed 5.11.2025

silence carries

The back side of a disused grain elevator, with a long lens. The distance and the wind combined to make the sounds of all the pigeons impossible to hear, which is an uncommon auditory experience around these old places.

Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025