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The valiant effort, doomed

They tried, the builder of that adobe wall between two abandoned buildings. But it looks like the new wall will soon meet the predicable fate of the other buildings. In fact, the adobes are already starting to erode, returning to the dirt they’re made from.

Shafter, Texas
photographed 11.4.2017

Barrier

You can’t even imagine how much I’d like to get inside this place to look around and take a few* photos. That barbed wire, though…

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.21.2018

*Not a few. A LOT more than a few.

Speed Limit

This oddly specific speed limit sign rusts away on the gate to an abandoned cottonseed oil mill. Maybe if people could have driven 11 or even 13 miles per hour, the place could have made it. I guess we’ll never know…

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.21.2018

Whatever this was, it didn’t end well

A detail of some hulking ruins I encountered in Eureka Springs – I’m not sure what the owners intended, but I am sure it wasn’t this sad end.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018

Furrow

There isn’t much left in Fluvanna, but there is this! I sort of fell for the rhythm of the concrete blocks and the horizontal ridges, but sometimes I”m easy to impress…

Fluvanna, Texas
photographed 10.20.2018