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My friend who knows me well
I’m close to starting my 8th year of daily blogging; one of the things that I never anticipated when I started was the possibility of making friends along the way. But it happened, which just proves (once again) that I don’t know everything.*
One of my best blogging friends is Ehpem, and I’ve been lucky enough to make a couple of trips up his way. On my most recent trip, he took me to this place, because he knew I’d love to see some nice abandoned buildings.
Jordan River, BC
photographed 4.22.2015
*That reminds me when my son was about 6, and went to school with a girl named Kim Thompson. From what I could gather, Kim’s family had fairly rigid rules about what girls and boys were “supposed” to do, and Nathan quoted those rules often. He’d say, “Kim Thompson says boys don’t wear pink.” or “Kim Thompson says boys aren’t supposed to learn how to cook.” One night, in exasperation, I said, “Kim Thompson doesn’t know everything.” The next day, I got this report from Nathan: Kim Thompson says she does too know everything.
Of course, that doesn’t have anything to do with, well, anything. But it still makes me laugh.
Creepy Monkey
The things that people leave behind when they abandon a house always interest me. Broken furniture, dead television sets, piles of mail and bill and magazines, curtains are all pretty common.
Monkeys, though, are a bit more unusual.
And I feel like this creepy monkey is probably friends with this even creepier doll (which was in an abandoned building in a different part of the state).
Valentine, Texas
photographed 7.11.2015
What counts for topography
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
