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Off the hook
I found a broken window and looked inside, yet again feeding my interest in seeing what kinds of things get left behind when a place becomes abandoned. No big surprises here, really, but I did quite enjoy the off-the-hook telephone.
A barn swallow flew around in her frenetic way, kindly illustrating how that very splattery pattern of bird shit got all over walls.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
1950 (or 1925)
I didn’t know it when I set out, but finding this church is the whole reason for taking the back roads last Saturday.
Up here on the High Plains, almost all the roads are set up on a straight north-south/east-west grid (except for curves to avoid playa lakes), and the buildings are built parallel to the roads. And then there was this church set at an angle to the road. It was a bright surprise.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Vine
I don’t know for sure that this vine is what keeps the place from falling down. But I do have my suspicions….
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
Leafy Fringe
Around the corner, a shy tree has taken root. The leaves, though, are thinking of checking out the world beyond their trunk. Leaves are like that.
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
The illusion of happiness
This place tried. I’m sure it did. Someone thought it would make a good event space and even draped some tulle back there to make…well, I guess they made draped tulle. Anyway, things didn’t work out and now it just sits there, all broken windows and pigeons and faded dreams.
It was only an illusion. (Or, to quote the lettering on the barrel, an “ilusion.”)
Plainview, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
