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Zombie Holly
Lubbock, Buddy Holly’s hometown, is getting a fancy new performing arts center. I was there last week for a tour and saw this, uh, portrait of Buddy drawn on some gyp board. I decided to name it Zombie Holly.
And, when the facility opens later this year, I am going to have fun looking at the donors’ wall knowing that Zombie Buddy is under there….
Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences (under construction)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.4.2020
the structure
Do you have one of these structures? I imagine that you do; I imagine that everyone has one! Just think of the thing(s) it does! And how useful it could be!!
But if you don’t have one, please tell me. I happen to know where there’s one that is not being used….
Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 2.1.2020
the framed view
This? Oh, I was just practicing doing a little internal framing with the car, the truck on the bridge, the flag, the car on the surface street. You know, just the stuff one does on a Saturday.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.11.2020
They call it progress
This old burger joint is nearly gone, having found itself in the right-of-way for a thing called the Outer Loop. I guess we all knew the Outer Loop was inevitable, yet somehow we seemed surprised that it requires relocation and demolition and general upheaval.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.11.2020
Power Plant
Here’s another view of the snowy morning from last week, with steam rising off the power plant over there on the horizon.
Interesting things about the power plant:
- It is the largest natural gas fired power plant in Texas.
- The plant uses 3 million to 5 million gallons of recycled water (treated sewage effluent) from the City of Lubbock each day for cooling and other vital plant purposes. Use of the sewage effluent helps save fresh water for other uses. Also it is a zero discharge plant, which means no process waters leave the site. Cooling water from the plant is reused for irrigating grass and forage on nearby farmland.
And so ends Utility Education Day here at One Day | One Image. Thanks for being here.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.11.2020
