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Recline. Decline.
Out in Bailey County, on the corner where Farm Road 54 makes a hard left to the north, the old Bula School molders away. The oldest building has collapsed to the point where on the front facade remains; there are a couple of other buildings that aren’t quite that far gone but it’s easy to see where they are heading.
inside the remains of the Bula School
Bailey County, Texas
photographed 2.4.2011
Over at Shorty’s place
Check out those window’s at Shorty’s! It’s plywood! Let’s just go ahead and add this to the plywood collection that already includes Anton, Snyder, Plainview, and Snyder again.
And if you want to know more about plywood, or nearly any other building material, I’d recommend that you read The Walls Around Us, by David Owen. It’s really not as boring as it sounds. (You can learn about plywood on pages 59-64, a page count which may weaken my not-as-boring-as-it-sounds argument.)
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 10.6.2013
And there was a pink toilet
So, that old gas station I found in Seymour, Texas, isn’t completely monochromatic after all.
The restroom door was shut when I was exploring the place. And you probably would have laughed at the technique I used to open the door: I hit it, hard, with the heel of my hand, to pop the door open and scare away any critters who might be inside (although where I thought they’d go isn’t exactly clear to me.)
But that bit of unnecessary drama was worth it, when the door swung open to this amazing sight.
Seymour, Texas
photographed 12.25.2013
White on white, 15
The backs of things.
Sometimes they are better than the side, or the front, as these views of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church show.
(It wasn’t just this church: here’s the back of St. Mary of the Assumption Church, in Megargel, Texas.)
Petrolia, California
photographed 7.30.2012
The excellent arrow
“The excellent arrow” is what I named this the day I found it.
It was a wayfinding arrow, showing where the parking lot was, for a now-defunct restaurant in downtown Lubbock. I like the curves, the blue-and-white, the way the artist signed it, the dappled sunlight on the concrete block wall.
For that matter, I even liked the restaurant.
(Regarding my use of the urban-planning term “wayfinding” – you may not know this about me, but I actually am a licensed urban planner! That doesn’t mean much, really, except that I once passed a test and continue to pay dues to the American Planning Association. But every now and then, just to keep in practice, I throw in a planning term. Here’s another one, just for fun: road diet. It really IS an exciting profession.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.13.2011
One Day | One Image 