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All the blue
The back side of the morning’s rain clouds were the very same blue-grey color of the old truck. This was one of those rare times when I knew for certain that the resulting photo would be posted in color…
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
(This is the last shot – for a while, anyway – from the Day of Driving and Photographing. You can see the other ones here, here, here, here, and here.)
Chair skeleton
Look! A chair skeleton! It was an amazing sight.
Out back, behind this abandoned farmhouse, there was a dog skeleton. And further out, we caught a whiff of something that was on its way to becoming a skeleton (if you know what I mean). All of which makes this place sound a lot more macabre than it really was.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
(You can see other photos from the Day of Driving and Photographing here, here, here, and here.)
Repay you for the years
The late sun caught this sign* on the western edge of the town of Sundown, a fitting sentence, maybe, for a rainy weekend in the midst of great drought.
Sundown,Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
*It’s Biblical – Joel 2:25. In case you wondered. Full disclosure: I Googled it; it wasn’t something I just knew.
(You can see other photos from the Day of Driving and Photographing here, here, and here.)
This didn’t end well
There’d been a fire at this house; we could tell that much. Judging from the chunks of previously-molten glass and the one piece of aluminum that had melted into a silvery pancake, it was a hot fire. (Aluminum melts at 1,221 degrees, I found out later). Almost nothing remained to give us any clues about what rooms had been where (a pile of broken china might have shown us where the dining room was, but who could tell?) or how big or how old the place might have been.
It’s in a remote part of a remote county, and internet searches didn’t reveal anything about when it happened, or why, or to whom.
We hope everyone made it out.
Cochran County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
(This is the third photo from the Day of Driving and Photographing. You can see the first one here and the second one here.)
20 pound graduations
Here’s the second shot from the Day of Driving and Photographing*.
We are four years in to a drought, but this weekend, we had rain so it was a muddy day. Getting to this place meant carefully plotting a path to skirt the worst of a huge mud puddle. It was worth it, though, to get to see this old set of scales – marked in twenty pound graduations – in the now-abandoned office next to the grain elevator. (In case you can’t imagine a grain elevator, here’s what this one looks like.)
County Line, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
