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A Static Parade
When I was in college, I drove a Pinto.
For a while, I went out with a guy who drove a Corvette. It was fun to roll around in a town in a car that caused people to not look at you with pity, which was what I was used to.
I kept that stupid Pinto for ten years, which is probably some kind of record. I don’t know what happened to the Corvette guy; I don’t think he was at this car show, though.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021
Yellow
For various reasons (including, but not limited to) feeling like I’m I a rut, I headed over to the Corvette show, which is not thing I’d normally attend. And took some color photos while I was there. And – and this is a big one – put PEOPLE in the image. I wonder where all this will lead?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021
The Gist
Why, yes. That graffiti is exactly what you think it is.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021
Spillway
The other Saturday morning, I headed out with the idea that I’d go to a Corvette show that I’d seen advertised. (One of my photography goals for the year is to push myself to photograph things I’d normally overlook, or flat-out ignore.) But it was a foggy morning, so before I went to see the Corvettes, I decided to visit the Dunbar Historical Lake Park. And while I was there, I walked out on the spillway to see what that looked like. And guess what? It looked a whole lot like this.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021
Silly String, the battle
At this point, everyone in our whole family has had a COVID-influenced birthday. It started with mine in March, went through two June and and one July birthday, and ended with a pair of January birthdays.
I have to say that we’ve made these crazy birthdays fun and unforgettable to the very best of our abilities. On this day, when my granddaughter Bennett turned seven, we ate pizza outside, sitting in circles that my son spray-painted on the grass. And then, after pizza, some (socially-distanced) fun with Silly String.
But we are lucky: we’ve been mostly healthy. We have friends and family. We all have the same jobs we had at the beginning*. We have Silly String. And we all fully realize that puts us in a category that not everyone gets to be in.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.21.2021
*Except the Patient Spouse, who retired in December.
