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This can’t go on forever
I made this photo in mid-May; by now, the inevitable may have already happened.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.16.2015
Over to the right
A long time ago, we bought a lawn mower at a flea market. When we got it home, we discovered that the serial number was gone. So either the mower had been used so much that the number was worn all the way off. Or it was stolen and the number had been filed off.
Since then, I’ve always associated that particular flea market with sketchy operations.
Anyway. This sign is just a block away, hanging on a fence in a residential neighborhood, which also seems a little sketchy.*
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.9.2015
*I shot this from the (relative) safety of my car.
The shortest distance
“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Remember that from geometry?
So, it turns out that works in Euclidean geometry, and the actual, universal truth about the shortest distance between two points is “relative to the situation.”
Therefore, I believe this wall is non-Euclidean: look at that vent pipe snaking its way up the wall.
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 Day | One Image 