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Why not take an ant’s-eye view photo?
Lorenzo’s not the kind of town that requires a long wait for a break in traffic there on the main street (which is actually Harrison Street), but still, that morning that I was there, it did seem like a statistically-unlikely number of people were out (and further, that they slowed down when they went by) on that Friday morning.
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025
monochrome (mostly)
It’s like the color of ground – the concrete and the dirt and small rocks – leached into the ball of yard that was spending its last days there. Or maybe it happened the other way around?
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025
i think her head is on backwards
I found a treasure the other day, on the corner of 5th Street and Harrison Avenue, in Lorenzo, Texas. There’d been some sort of retail operation there (A thrift store, maybe? It was already out of business on the 2023 Google Street View.) but the building had been lately torn down. Across the back of the lot were piles of bricks and ceiling tile and boxes and inventory. I spent some good time exploring.
This mannequin seemed creepy enough at the time to warrant a photo, but it got weirder after I got home and edited the picture – that’s when I noticed that her head had spun around until it was completely backwards on her shoulders.
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025
Augers
You see it too, right? The curves and the way the light dances from them?
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 3.27.2016
Repair
I suppose this sign indicates a building that is in need of repair?
Between when I shot this in April, and when I got it ready for the blog a couple of days ago, I’d forgotten if this place was in Ralls or Lorenzo. I used Google street view and “drove” down the highway until I spotted it. While that did save me some traveling, I realize that I also missed out on the chance to take more photographs….
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.1.2013
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