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Lighthouse
A friend of a friend took me here, and it was quite a find. I’ve posted other images of it here and here.
I’m starting to think it might be time for a return visit, just to see how the old place is getting along. Oh, and to make some more photos.
Lighthouse Church
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.23.2014
The future was wide open
Another one of the closed-down schools around here. This one’s been vacant (or un-used, anyway) since 1965, when it was consolidated with the school in nearby Post, Texas.
Post was founded by C. W. Post, whom you may have heard of if you’ve ever eaten Post Toasties or other breakfast cereals. And Close City is named for Post’s son-in-law, E. B. Close, who was married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, who was famous for being a rich philanthropist*. She and Close were divorced and each went on to marry several more times. Which is how this happened: via his second marriage, Edward Bennett** Close would become the paternal grandfather of actress Glenn Close.***
And who says nothing interesting happens around here?
Close City, Texas
photographed 5.31.201
*Her home Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is now tainted owned by Donald Trump.
** I have a granddaughter named Bennett, but I believe that’s largely coincidental.
*** You can read more here.
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Across the road from yesterday’s image, I found a gas station that’s been out of business for a while.
Those elm trees are tenacious: they’ve been on their own for a while now, through a long drought or two, and still they hang on, with new branches growing through the dead stuff.
McAdoo, Texas
photographed 7.3.2015
Standing Guard
We took a trip to Dallas to look at a park.
That’s not odd, is it?
(Never mind. I know it’s weird. Embrace the weirdness, I say!)
At the park, we saw a tight row of bollards, designed to keep kids inside the playground.
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texas
photographed 1.7.2015
To Ascend
“Oh, you must go inside! It’s beautiful,” said the parishioner leaving after Mass.
She was right. Even the foyer was lovely, with the play of light on the surfaces and the hint of mystery about what was at the top of the stairs.
(And in case you wondered, the slope-shouldered gentleman there on the wall is St. Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney, the patron of parish priests.)
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Lafayette, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
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