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The apparatus
This thing. I saw this thing in Dougherty. I just think of it as the apparatus. Maybe someone can tell me what it is, because I don’t have any idea. Something to do, maybe, with what ever goes on at a grain elevator?
If you want to check it out for yourself, it’s easy to find: it’s the only apparatus of this sort in town.
Dougherty, Texas
photographed 4.2.2014
Lean-to
It’s not spelled the way it’s pronounced. The locals call it “Darty.” (We asked.) There’s not much there anymore, but it used to have a school (through grade 6, then kids were bused over to Floydada), a dancehall, a grocery store.
But now it’s got this skeletal building, slumped against the other one.
Dougherty, Texas
photographed 4.2.2014
Trash day
Yes, it’s true: I will take a picture of anything. (As long as it meets certain criteria that I generally find hard to articulate.)
These trash bins met that standard. I liked how they were almost perfectly spaced and I liked how they tilted down the street to the little bridge over East Bouldin Creek.
But, really: trash bins?
West Annie Street
Austin, Texas
photographed 4.12.2014
Lutheran, and a field
I spotted this nice little church in my wanderings last spring – that limestone tower was what first caught my attention.
Then I saw how the careful lawn was keeping that field at bay, which for someone who’s more theologically competent than I am might be significant.
And, as I always do when I stop at these country churches, I checked to door in hopes it was unlocked. There have only been a couple of times when I found an open door – this one in Megargel, Texas, and this place in Driftwood, Texas; this place was locked up.
But the disappointment of not being able to see inside was tempered by another look at how the Lutherans keep the lawn.
Uhland, Texas
photographed 5.10.2013
