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Sliding
Not too much left in Throckmorton, and it looks as though it’s sliding toward oblivion. The population decreased nearly 9% from 2000 to 2010. Even more telling: in 2010, there were 466 housing units in town and 116 of them were vacant.
I found this near the intersection of Texas Street (which isn’t paved) and North Matthews Street (which is).
This isn’t the first time this particular structure’s made an appearance on the blog: you can see it here or here or here.
Throckmorton, Texas
photographed 3.25.2012
Complete motor service
Although I really do want to believe the sign that promises complete motor service, I sort of doubt it.
But I didn’t need my car repaired when I was in town. And I was looking around for things to photograph, so it all worked out. My favorite thing here is that grain on the piece of plywood that’s covering (I am guessing) a window.
Amherst, Texas
photographed 5.24.2013
The road to nowhere
The streets are wide enough so trucks have an easy time backing up, and pulling away from, loading docks.
It makes me think of the Talking Heads:
Maybe you wonder where you are
I don’t care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you thereWe’re on a road to nowhere
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.28.2013
Ice plant
Yesterday’s post might have caused some confusion between Vanishing Point* and a vanishing point, and I apologize for that. I really do.
But, here I am again, with a title that might have led readers in certain coastal regions to think I was referring to the ice plant**, when what I obviously meant was an ice plant.
I’ll try to be more clear in the future.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
*Only $9.98 at Amazon. I bet that’s a good deal.
**Also known as pigface. FYI.
That one Saturday morning
Nazareth, Texas, is about 90 miles from Lubbock. There are a couple of ways to get there, but one of them involves driving on the interstate, so I almost never choose that route. Instead I go through Shallowater and Littlefield and Spade and Olton and Hart, traveling mostly on a narrow farm road. It’s a nice drive, and I especially like it on winter mornings when the low sunlight catches the spiky stalks left behind in the fields after the harvest.
This one Saturday, I was heading to Nazareth and keeping my eye on the interesting clouds. I could tell that I was going to pass under them at some point along the way, and so it was with a bit of luck that I was in Hart when I caught up with the clouds: it made for a more interesting photograph to have buildings in the shot.
Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Good things happen in Nazareth. You should go, if you get a chance.
Hart, Texas
photographed 11.19.2011
One Day | One Image 