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St. Benedict
This is the back of St. Benedict’s Church, in downtown Lubbock. St. Benedict’s mission is to serve the homeless, the working poor, and the food insecure in our town.
To be honest, I am not sure what the front of the place looks like, but with that reflection in the puddle, the well-used doors, and the brick paving, it seemed like nothing in front would be any better.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.16.2015
Dam Graffiti
There’s a shallow canyon that cuts across the northeast corner of Lubbock; when I was a kid, it was the place where you dumped off your junked car when it didn’t run anymore, or your old mattress, or a bag of household garbage. It was sad that the only real topography in the city was just a long ad hoc landfill. Then in the middle of the 1970s, the Canyon Lakes project began construction, and the junk was hauled away. A series of low dams were built, causing a string of small lakes through the canyon.
It’s a nice place, now, with trails and picnic tables and lakes. And, along the side of the last dam in the chain, there’s a bit of interesting graffiti.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.16.2016
One building, a lot of information
Goodness. There’s a lot going on at this tiny building. We learn that only one employee may park here. We note that the door seems very well secured. We can see that it is a “tobacco environment.” And then…there it is: irony.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.15.2015
Gateway to Beyond
If you arrive at the City of Lubbock Cemetery from the back, the first thing you’ll see is this imposing mausoleum, standing like a gateway to whatever comes after.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.15.2015
A five-member herd
I drive this highway every day on my way to work. It’s not a very exciting trip, most of the time – just 30 miles or so of mostly straight 4-lane highway. Sure, it curves a couple of times, and the speed limit drops through the little town of Smyer.
A few months ago I started to notice the chairs outside the fence of a junkyard that’s along the way. Sometimes there are two or three, other times there are as many as five. Sometimes they face each other, sometimes the highway, and sometimes one or two of them are on their side. I always look when I go by; it gives me something to do.
Toward the end of last week, I noticed the chair census had grown from two all the way to five. So on Saturday morning, I took a drive out that way to make a portrait of the herd of chairs.
Highway 114
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 5.9.2015
One Day | One Image 