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…and it begins
It’s only been fourteen years since we bought this land out in the country and started designing a house. The house went through a lot of designs before we settled on one. And twice before now we got all the way to getting prices. And three years ago we nearly ditched the whole idea. But anyway, there’s no turning back now.
The contractor says it’ll take three months, but just to keep what sanity I currently posess, I’m preparing myself for this to take seven or eight months. But don’t worry – I’ll be sure and keep you all posted on the progress.
Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 11.15.2019
Available Light
Afternoon sun, on dead flowers, a leafless trees, and a window missing glass and screen.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 7.28.2019
Years of Dreaming
“Years of dreaming…will be climaxed Friday night with the staging of the first event in the city’s new, luxurious auditorium.”
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
March 25, 1956
“People of Lubbock voted by a narrow margin to ultimately have the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum demolished.”
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
May 6, 2018
And, like that, on a 526-vote margin, we voted to destroy two of our most recognizable buildings – buildings that held our collective memories of basketball games, rodeos, symphonies, circuses, monster truck pulls, pancake breakfasts, concerts, graduations, and so many other events, all of which helped define our community. And ourselves.
Not one thing in any of these photos exists any more. What will happen to our memories, now that these buildings are gone? Will they get stronger? Become larger than life? Become so faint we almost doubt the circus or the symphony ever even happened?
Where did our years of dreaming go?
Arcade – photographed June 12, 2018
Let’s do this – photographed June 12, 2018
First Aid Room – photographed June 12, 2018
Entry – photographed June 12, 2018
Arcade – photographed June 21, 2018
Concrete Windows – photographed June 21, 2018
Out of Order – photographed July 11, 2018
Additional Storage – photographed July 17, 2018
Rainy Day Doors – photographed August 18, 2018
Grid with lights and curtains – photographed September 10, 2018
Mirror, mirror – photographed September 10, 2018
House lights had dimmed – photographed September 10, 2018
Racks, room 201 – photographed September 13, 2018
Cleanliness – photographed September 13, 2018
At the lowest point – photographed September 17, 2018
Pipe Shadow – photographed September 18, 2018
Crow’s Nest View – photographed September 18, 2018
Stairs – photographed September 18, 2018
Stage – photographed September 24, 2018
Two kinds of sinks – photographed September 25, 2018
Chair and music stand – photographed September 26, 2018
Velvet, worn away – photographed September 26, 2018
Above it all – photographed September 26, 2018
Front of House – photographed November 11, 2018
Never to be repeated – photographed December 8, 2018
After the last rodeo – photographed April 7, 2019
You can see it all from here – photographed April 7, 2019
Marked for death – photographed April 27, 2019
Matched my mood – photographed May 3, 2019
Dome Down – photographed May 26, 2019
Garden Helix
Here’s the last photo from my trip to the garden center the other day. It’s a short series because I didn’t really get the sorts of images I had in my head, which surely says a lot more about the contents of my head than it does of the contents of the garden center.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.20.2019
Spike
This is what happens when my camera and I are left unattended at the garden center: I take lots of random pictures. I figured if any employee challenged me, I’d just say I was taking pictures to give to my landscape designer. That sounds kind of plausible, I think. No one bothered me, though; I think they were busy waiting on actual customers or something.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.20.2019
One Day | One Image 