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It doesn’t look all that cozy to me….
…but it is quaint, with the old sign and the rock buildings.
I think the cottages at the Cozy Court are apartments, but there’s not too much (or any) information readily available. My attention span, in other words, was shorter than the search. Maybe my Research Department can find out?
Alpine, Texas
photographed 8.17.2013
Headquarters
I shot this on the same trip to Odessa where I took this and this. It’s not as dramatic as the other two shots, but I sure did like the way those letters cast a shadow onto the window blinds behind them. So impressed, in fact, that I stood in the middle of the street to get the picture. (That wasn’t as dangerous as it sounds: as it turns out, there is very little traffic in downtown Odessa on a Sunday afternoon. You might want to keep that in mind when planning your own trip there.)
Odessa, Texas
photographed 12.8.2013
Today’s mail
Maybe some of you follow Lisa Gordon’s blog? If you don’t, you might want to head over there and check it out. On January 1, Lisa announced that she, along with Steve at Another Rich Collectible, was giving away four copies of onOne Software’s Perfect Effects 4 Premium. I was lucky enough to have been chosen.
In today’s mail – there it was! And now, it’s installed on my computer and here’s the first photo that I edited using Perfect Effects 4 Premium.
Thanks Lisa and Steve!
This is what’s inside this building.. You were probably wondering.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.29.2013
Car repair (not) done here
Maybe you recognize this from an earlier post? Thanks to an open door at the back of the place, I was able to step inside and look around. The best thing I saw was this view from one of the service bays, with the garage door windows providing a frame to both the inside and the outside.
I don’t know how long the building’s been vacant – the business has moved to a new location – but it is for sale. The building is 1,556 square feet, and is in need of some renovation. For one thing, the restroom adjacent to the office doesn’t have a sink in it. It’s not that vandals have taken the sink. It’s never had one. Why was THAT a good idea?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.24.2013
It all blends together, eventually
This was a nice find as we drove through Seymour. At least I thought so; the nearby dog took exception to my being there and barked non-stop.
This is the back wall of a long-abandoned gas station, the old-time kind with a service bay. What caught my eye here was the way that all the different things – stucco wall, electric meter, weeds – have started to take on the same sort of texture, blending their colors together in a shade we could call Decline.
Seymour, Texas
photographed 12.25.2013
