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Openings

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For reasons that are both too lengthy and too personal to get into, I have a strong emotional attachment to this part of Lubbock County. And so, when there was a chance to purchase property on the very road where my attachment is strongest, of course we took it. Our plan was to build a house out there, but a few circumstances, combined with our complete inability to make decisions*, have meant that the property’s been waiting on us for nine years.

One of these days…one of these days, the time will be right to make the decisions and to make the move. It’s just not now.

But our time will open and a new life on the rim will someday unfold.

Until then, the hut** that came with the place works steadily to become invisible.

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 1.17.2015

*To my readers with good memories: yes, there ARE architects in the family. That actually makes it harder to make decisions. I am sure normal people would have been living out there for years by now.

**The window on the far left is also seen here.

In the hope that you can see

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“In the hope that you can see” is a wisp of a song that played while I was working on this image. It seemed to fit.

Childress, Texas
photographed 12.26.2015

(You can hear the song here.)

A Musical Variety

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This place just has it all. If by “all,” you mean a couple of kinds of music and a lot of very tight dresses.

Plainview, Texas
photographed 12.25.2015

Martinez, 2

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This is the same place as yesterday, only with a Lensbaby instead of my regular lens.

That selective focus makes it look like either the photographer or the building is in a hurry to be elsewhere.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.24.2015

Martinez, 1

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I don’t think this place is in business any more. However, if it is still open, it might be a nice place to go in the summer: that’s a really big air conditioner there on the wall!

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.24.2014