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a pink sofa
This place used to be a very nice fabric store. It’s the same store where my mom and I found the fabric for my wedding dress, which she sewed from a Vogue pattern (because I was fancy like that and because she was an excellent seamstress). I love it that time has folded over on itself: now it’s a wedding dress store.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.18.2022
and stop
Another fine find from my day of billboard photography. As you can probably figure out by the condition of the sign, the liquor store that wants you to stop is long gone, leaving us forever unable to save on all our favorite beverages.
This stop yielded two bonuses. One was that beer bottle stuck in the dirt below the sign. And the other was the approximately 100 million grass burrs that attached themselves to my pants legs and shoes and shoelaces. I appreciated one of the bonuses more than the other…
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.14.2022
Membership Rates (may be negotiable)
I’m just guessing, using many context clues, that those posted membership rates could be negotiable.
(I used to have a job that was awful for many, many reasons. One of the reasons was the sexist boss, who would take the male employees out golfing on a routine basis. The women? Nope. We never got invited. My work friend and I decided to address the issue by taking golf lessons, talking about it all the time at work, and acting as though we actually liked golf. We thought that might shift the balance a little bit. It did, too, only not quite the way we’d anticipated: she got transferred out of state and I got fired. But anyway, along about that same time, my son and I played at this little course several times. My son is hilarious and so our golf games were…uh…unorthodox. And we had a hell of a good time, more fun that was ever possible if I’d to play with that sexist boss and his enablers. So things worked out.) (Also, right after I got fired from that job – which I didn’t even like – I landed my current job, which is the best job I’ve ever had. So, again, things worked out.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2021
Portals
I have only recently noticed a repository of dead cars (mostly VWs) on the highway near my house. There is very strong evidence to suggest that it’s been there for a while – a long while – so I am not sure what it took until lately for me to see it.
But the camera and I got there as fast as we could, and we found these portals.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 6.20.21
…and then one day, no one returned
I’ve written about this before, about the mysterious things just get left behind when a business closes or moves away. This one looks like no one there knew it was the last time – the centerpieces moved off the tables for cleaning, the spray bottle down there on the bar, someone’s COVID mask left behind.
It feels like the last two people there said, “Yeah. That’s enough for today – we’ll come back on Saturday to finish up.” Only….
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.16.2021
One Day | One Image 