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Today’s mail
Maybe some of you follow Lisa Gordon’s blog? If you don’t, you might want to head over there and check it out. On January 1, Lisa announced that she, along with Steve at Another Rich Collectible, was giving away four copies of onOne Software’s Perfect Effects 4 Premium. I was lucky enough to have been chosen.
In today’s mail – there it was! And now, it’s installed on my computer and here’s the first photo that I edited using Perfect Effects 4 Premium.
Thanks Lisa and Steve!
This is what’s inside this building.. You were probably wondering.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.29.2013
Car repair (not) done here
Maybe you recognize this from an earlier post? Thanks to an open door at the back of the place, I was able to step inside and look around. The best thing I saw was this view from one of the service bays, with the garage door windows providing a frame to both the inside and the outside.
I don’t know how long the building’s been vacant – the business has moved to a new location – but it is for sale. The building is 1,556 square feet, and is in need of some renovation. For one thing, the restroom adjacent to the office doesn’t have a sink in it. It’s not that vandals have taken the sink. It’s never had one. Why was THAT a good idea?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.24.2013
It all blends together, eventually
This was a nice find as we drove through Seymour. At least I thought so; the nearby dog took exception to my being there and barked non-stop.
This is the back wall of a long-abandoned gas station, the old-time kind with a service bay. What caught my eye here was the way that all the different things – stucco wall, electric meter, weeds – have started to take on the same sort of texture, blending their colors together in a shade we could call Decline.
Seymour, Texas
photographed 12.25.2013
Water Gardens
So, this place. The Fort Worth Water Gardens. It was designed in the 1970s by famed architect Philip Johnson, and is in a style called “brutalism.” From the looks of the place, I’d say “brutalism” involves lots and lots of exposed aggregate concrete.
The gardens have three separate water features – an active pool (which was the site of a tragic multiple drowning in 1984), an aeration pool, and a meditation pool. This picture was taken beside the meditation pool.
All three fountain areas are interesting to visit (though it was hard to put the memories of the drownings out of my head at the active pool) – they were designed to give visitors different experiences at each location. While I didn’t necessarily stop and meditate at the meditation pool, it was a very calm place to sit in the warm winter sun for a few minutes. Until I saw some other things to photograph….
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.26.2013
Three barriers
These three skinny sentries keep (everyone hopes) cars from turning into the pedestrian walkway at this parking garage. I like how the concrete is discolored where people walk, and lighter where they don’t. And I like the way the posts lean slightly in different directions, as though they are getting tired of standing there.
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.26.2013
