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broken home
Here’s something else I spotted on my work trip the other day.
Clearly, this mobile home encountered something disastrous and I went back on Saturday to give it a further look.
It was new: as I walked up I could smell the new wood and the weird out-gassing smell of plastic laminate or flooring or whatever.
And also, is it just me, or does the part of the wall that’s just below the power pole look like part of an eye?
Lynn County, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
flat/screen
Last week I had to drive to Tahoka for a meeting; on the drive I kept my eyes open for future photos.
This farmhouse was one of the things I saw and it was my first stop on a weekend photo-drive.
Every one of these old houses looks basically the same on the inside, with crap just piled up everywhere. But then again, each one is different. I’ve seen shoes and clothes and books and dolls and tires and jars of applesauce.* This one featured not only a deceased rat lying on its back on the sofa, like it was taking a little nap, but it also had the morning light coming through windows and a broken flat-screen television.
Lynn County, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
*I first wrote “jars of applesauce and tires” which sounds like an impossible thing but also sounds like something I’d really like to see.
hammond
I have issues. Not in general (although of course I do have quite a few general issues) – but with the things in this photo.
First of all, it bothers me a lot that the star on the hot-cold thing is wrong side up. I can almost understand the decision to point in down toward the round thing* but, it is just wrong.
But what gets me even more is that cloud that has a hand (A hand! What the hell?) growing out of the bottom of it.
And let’s not even get into the discussion about if the building that’s held by the cloud-hand is supposed to be a hand-held size or if the cloud-hand is actually gigantic enough to hold an entire building.
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 2.28.2026
*to use the technical term
you’ll never sink when you are with me
I went to the Salton Sea four years ago and just lately took another look at the photos I’d made on the trip.
Some of them appealed to me now more than they did then – and this is one of them.
I do not know what the artist (or artists) intended to convey with this installation in the Salton Sea. Pyramids are said to be linked to funeral rites as a passing of existence beyond time…this one in the dying sea seems especially poignant.
Bombay Beach, California
photographed 2.12.2022
sun/burn
You know how your dermatologist is always talking about using sunscreen?
This right here is why. I mean, just look at their skin – some of it looks like it melted, some of has some awful growths*, and none it of looks healthy.
East Jesus, California
photographed 2.11.2022
*Completely unrelated: what does leprosy look like?
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