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Flyer Club
One of the surprising things around Lubbock, given its reputation as a place without discernible topography, is the canyon that’s to the east of town. (Here’s more information, and that photo titled Yellowhouse Canyon near Slaton, Texas is exactly the view we’ll have from our future house.)
But I digress.
This is the entrance to a now-defunct radio-controled airplane club. At least, that’s what I’ve heard, fourth or fifth hand. But even if that’s not accurate information (the part about the RC planes, I mean, as I am pretty sure whatever was there isn’t in operation any longer) I like how the sign hangs there in the trees and the little caliche road wanders over the hill.
Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 4.24.2016
The Interim Fence
It’s easy to fall into the rhythm of the straight roads on the Plains. Fences flash by, post-wire-post-wire-post, in the endless pattern of ranch land.
Until the rhythm is broken by a flash that’s not quite right in a way that makes a photographer seek a place to turn around.
FM 7300
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.31.2016
Flat Land
This is the geography that I am used to. Some people think there’s nothing to see out here. Some people are wrong*.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2015
*I once had a conversation, via letters, with writer William Least Heat Moon. He’s one of my favorite authors, but I took exception to something disparaging that he’d written about driving across the Texas Pandhandle, where he claimed the drive was boring and there was nothing to see. We finally agreed to disagree. He’s still wrong, of course.
All the blue
The back side of the morning’s rain clouds were the very same blue-grey color of the old truck. This was one of those rare times when I knew for certain that the resulting photo would be posted in color…
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
(This is the last shot – for a while, anyway – from the Day of Driving and Photographing. You can see the other ones here, here, here, here, and here.)
Chair skeleton
Look! A chair skeleton! It was an amazing sight.
Out back, behind this abandoned farmhouse, there was a dog skeleton. And further out, we caught a whiff of something that was on its way to becoming a skeleton (if you know what I mean). All of which makes this place sound a lot more macabre than it really was.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
(You can see other photos from the Day of Driving and Photographing here, here, here, and here.)
One Day | One Image 