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Window shopping, #1

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Well, to be fair, in addition to peering through the windows of empty buildings, I also look at regular window displays.

If you can call this one “regular.”

Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014

The things left behind

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Yes, I do look in windows of abandoned buildings. How else will I know what’s inside? Like this place. Unless I’d looked inside (and made a photo while I was at it), how else could I have possibly known that there had apparently been some sort of an insect infestation there toward the end, when everything important was being packed up?

That’s important to know.

Loup City, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014

9 windows

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My road trip took me to Hastings, Nebraska, where I got to see my pal Brett Erickson. I’ve known Brett for a few years now, and follow his blog. In all that time, and in all those images, I don’t recall that I’ve ever seen any photos of Hastings.

Maybe he didn’t want me to disclose this information, but I was able to find some old buildings while I was in town. Like this place, with those nine windows that caught my attention.

Oh, and just a word of advice here. If you are in Nebraska and it’s a football weekend and everyone from sales clerks to waiters to just random people on the street want to talk football, just go along with it. It’s a lot easier for everyone involved. Never mind how I figured that out.

Hastings, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014

There was some weather, #3

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I took a little road trip the other day, and drove for many miles just behind this storm. Eventually I caught it, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it looked from a distance.

The next day, there was a line of storms on the eastern horizon. They were there all day, and it never seemed like my location changed in relation to them. That made the day seem a lot longer than it actually was.

near Perryton, Texas
photographed 8.28.2014

Stairway to…9th Street

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What a graceful stairway! It connects the rarely-used plaza level of the Civic Center with pedestrian-unfriendly 9th Street.

As we say about failed architecture, “I guess it looked good on paper.”

Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014