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I used to have a job where thought I needed to play golf * to “fit it” with the (male)(of course) powers.**
The only part of it that I liked was playing early in the morning, when the grass was still damp with dew and/or overnight watering. I liked the way the greens sparkled. I liked how it smelled. I liked how damp grass clippings would cling to my shoes. Once the sun got high enough and hot enough to dry things up, the whole thing became boring. But at least there were only about four hours to go, or whatever.
Anyway, this water-sprinkled leaf the other day reminded me of golf courses.
West Texas Master Gardeners – garden tour
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2026
*I was terrible at golf.
**Early 2000s me was a different person than 3026 me. Now I would call out the bullshit. I would ask why we were using City-owned property to put together Knights of Columbus golf tournament swag. I’d wonder out loud about workplace sexism. I’d decline to play golf but would take golf-tournament days and not go to the office. And I’d go ahead and find another job because that one sucked.
never saw saturday
This summer’s weather has bounced all over the place – we’ve had cool days, days that were pushing 110°, days where it felt like it had never in all of history rained, days when it rained as though it would never stop. There doesn’t feel like there’s a middle anywhere in the mix.
When it’s hot, my brain thinks colors have faded so it was pretty insistent about the final look of this image since the garden tour landed on a very hot day.
West Texas Master Gardeners – garden tour
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2026
neighborhood history
Oh, this? Just a run-down laundry (that seems to have run so far down that it is out of business) in an even more run-down neighborhood.
It feels like maybe at one point the plan was to repaint the whole sign, but the project was abandoned only two letters in.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.12.2026
bubbles
One of the houses on the local garden tour had a gorgeous oasis for a back yard. One of my favorite things were the water features; no matter where I went in the yard, I could hear the sounds of water. It felt cool. And relaxing.
I did mention to the owner of the house (and garden!) that I was planning to move in. I was nice about it – I wasn’t even asking him to leave or anything; at the very least I’ll need him there to maintain the yard. He sort of acted like it was a joke; later at least one of us is going to be surprised…
West Texas Master Gardeners – garden tour
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2026
the roof-giants
One of my favorite things I see during wanders through small towns are the civic-pride murals. I can’t recall ever seeing one that looked new – mostly they look like they were left over from the town’s centennial that’s already a quarter-century in the past. The paint is likely to be faded and/or chipped. Sometime’s the perspective is wonky. Or the scale is weird. Sometimes what was an accepted depiction of people a few decades ago seems terribly inappropriate now. There’s always something to see, though.
This time there was the the rare spotting of a whole family of giants standing on top of the farmer’s co-op gin. How frightening that must be for the workers and the horses way down below, like little ants compared the the local giants.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 5.29.2026
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