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Snow Tires

It’s been almost three years since we got enough snow to even notice. So, naturally, we had to get out and drive around in it…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.9.2018

Range Balls


In a previous career, in an effort to crack the boy’s club at the office, my co-worker and I decided to take up golf. (The Boys in the Club were often missing on Friday afternoons, out playing golf together. It was loads and loads of bullshit.)

Of course, we didn’t break into the Club: she was transferred to another location a thousand miles away and I eventually ended up getting fired. (But don’t feel bad for either one of us, as we are both much better off now.) Also, of course, we didn’t turn into golfers.

There’s a golf course down the street from my house, and its future seems in doubt. It looks closed, and there’s rumors that a church bought the site.

Anyway, the other day the weather forecast was for a big winter storm and I decided that shooting the abandoned-looking driving range with the backdrop of bad weather would be a good idea. The day the storm was supposed to arrive, all we had were some clouds that were barely interesting. But then, overnight, snow! These two photos were made almost exactly 24 hours apart.

Stonegate Golf Course
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.7.2018 and 12.8.2018

Daylight Carnival

It says a lot about changing shopping patterns that the Mall parking lot has enough space to host a whole carnival – back in the day when that was the only place to shop, there wouldn’t have been enough room to put even a single merry-go-round in the parking lot.

Which reminds me that our Sears store will be closing soon and I need to go over there and see if I can stealth-photo its growing emptiness…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.20.2018

Creatures in the night

A couple of weeks after I made this shot, my friend with parking-garage access helped me get this photo. The tower is gone by now, but I suppose that heavy-construction equipment still prowls the site, getting things all level for whatever happens next…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.2.2018

Streetscape

Here’s a collection of rectangles, broken up by an arch, a satellite dish, and one and a half trees.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.5.2015