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Left behind: flouncy curtains in a wood-paneled room.

Left behind: dreams that didn’t survive reality.

Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014

Trees like a cage

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These trees are keeping the house from escaping. Or from falling down.

Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014

Drawn by a five year old

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You know the way little kids draw a house, with a square on the bottom and a lopsided triangle balanced on top? And a skinny chimney coming out perpendicular to the roof?

Except for not having a chimney, that’s what this old place looks like to me.

FM 836
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014

The Luthier’s Place

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I want so badly for this place to be owned by a family named Luthier.

FM 836
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014

For safekeeping

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The windows in what the old-timers must surely call “the Cadillac house” were broken, so naturally I looked in. And found this old truck, which was once important enough to store inside a building. I’d guess that the reasons for storing it have faded away and it’s there out of habit as much as for any other reason.

But it was a nice thing to see through a broken window.

Spur, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014