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The remains of the gin
This abandoned cotton gin is right in the middle of town, just a few blocks from the county courthouse. It’s sort of fantastic looking, now, to people like me.
But, I feel bad for anyone who lived nearby – and there are houses just across the street – when it was operational. Cotton ginning’s a dirty business; at the height of the season, everything around is covered with so many fluffs of cotton that it looks like snow. It might sound sort of pretty, but it’s not. And it’s hard to breathe, too.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.14.2012
Truckload sales
It’s good to know that even in small towns, you can get this stuff at affordable prices.
No, it’s really not. It’s sort of disturbing. And the thing is that this truck has been parked for a couple of weeks and seems to be selling lots of stuff. Just in time for Christmas, too, which is a topic you probably don’t want to get me started on.
A couple of other things:
1. The lettering. Gracious. Especially that odd S at the end of “knives.”
2. They may have meant “taser” instead.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 12.13.2013
Geometry and the church
Circles. Arches. Rectangles. The building’s geometry is pretty well defined.
The parking lot operates on a different set of standards, and its parking-space geometry is broken by grass growing in the cracks of ignored asphalt.
First United Methodist Church
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.23.2013
Drive up service offered
I don’t know why you’d need a drive-up window at an insurance office. If that’s an important feature for you, though, here it is.
But be careful: those three skinny poles holding up the canopy aren’t going to withstand much if you run into them and I am thinking that an insurance claim because the insurance office fell on your car might become complicated.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.23.2013
The smoking section
The flea market around the corner from my office has a smoking section. Right there on the sidewalk.
I’ve been wanting to photograph this for a while, but during the day the sidewalk is cluttered up with people, and you may have noticed that I don’t really have that many people in my shots (if “not that many” = “none”) so I went by there one night…and all the smokers were elsewhere.
Houston Street
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.23.2013
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