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Many Skeletons

A sign of changing times: this particular scene, full of abandoned stuff, is repeated over and over again across Texas high plains farms.

Clarendon, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019

Recreations and Marinas

In the winter, the marina doesn’t have a single thing going on.

The summer may not be that different, actually, because this lake is currently at only 20% capacity. (But that’s almost double the level of its neighbor Lake Mackenzie.)

Greenbelt Reservoir, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019

Well?

Well. Well?

All I know is that if you walk through this culvert you’ll come out on the other side and still be in the city park. In other words, I don’t know anything that’s of particular interest here.

Canadian, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019

Winter pool

Here’s the town swimming pool, a couple of days after Christmas. Evidently the lifeguards get different jobs in the winter months.

Canadian, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019

Throwing a Shadow

Now, this rack of whatever-it-is may look random and disorganized, but I can assure you with a great deal of certainty that it is not. Indeed, everything has been deliberately placed, after some degree of deliberation.

I am so certain about this because this belongs to the Patient Spouse, who is in fact the World’s Most Organized Person™.

Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 2.1.2020

* Once, I added a single hanger in the shirt section of his closet. For at least a month, he thought one of his shirts had somehow gone missing. I’m just delightful!