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There was no explanation

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I just really don’t have any idea what this was all about. There’s not one thing there that makes the least bit of sense to me.

(UPDATE: the chairs, lamp, and table are gone. Only the curtains remain.)

(UPDATE, updated: My friend Ron is Facebook friends with an woman named Terry Gilmore Fritz, who did the installation as part of a photography class. According to Ron, she set it up so passsersby could “shoot people while in the scene.” So it totally makes sense that I saw it, stopped, and made photos without people. That’s comforting, somehow.)

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015

What counts for topography

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We don’t have hills around here. There are jokes like “It’s so flat you can watch your dog run away for a week.” or “It’s so flat that if you look real hard you can see the back of your own head.”

So, instead of typical topography, we’ve got things like this asphalt plant to break up the horizon a little bit.

Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.17.2014

Until next year

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Fall at the City’s swimming pool looks like this. I’d like to say I could still smell pool chemicals in the air, but that’s overly poetic. And also not true.

But check out that big wooden electrical spool in the pool – what’s the deal with that?

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.25.2015

The sky was the art

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I was talking to some people but keeping my eye on the artful sky. I think they probably noticed that I wasn’t fully in the conversation…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.5.2015

Holding up the sky

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Another sky view from Yellowhouse Canyon – this one looking west. Those mesquite branches look as though they are hard at work, holding the sky aloft.

Here’s the view to the south. And to the east.

Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 6.6.2015