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Golf: it’s untrustworthy
The first time I ever played miniature golf was at a birthday party for my friend Deborah. We were seven.
I had no idea what miniature golf involved; it wasn’t one of the activities on the approved list at my house. Birthday parties weren’t something we did either, and I was very shy back then, so Deborah’s invitation must surely have filled me with dread.
But I went. I swatted a red golf ball with a kid-sized putter. Had some cake, too, and maybe brought home a party favor.
When I got home, I told my dad that I’d won golf! I had, you see, gotten the highest score, and that surely meant I’d won. Right?
I haven’t trusted golf since.
Abandoned Miniature Golf Course
Slaton, Texas
photographed 2.16.2013
Art room sink
I took this inside the same room as this and this.
But what I really wanted to show you was my three-part (so far) series I guess I can call Random Broken Sinks. I found the first one inside another abandoned school building in Garza County, Texas. And the second one is in the unused second floor of a building in Tahoka, Texas.
Union School
Terry County, Texas
photographed 7.4.2012
Rustoleum Metallic, art room
Another shot from inside the art room at the vacated Wellman Union School.
See that can on the desk? It’s Rustoleum Metallic. I am just positive that someone took the spray paint in there with the intentions of painting the filing cabinets. Right?
Union School
Terry County, Texas
photographed 7.4.2012
Home Ec door
After yesterday’s post, I thought I’d go ahead and show another school that’s had better days.
This is one of the buildings at the now-defunct Wellman Union School. The sign on the door says Home Ec, which makes it sound old-timey. Except that around here, people probably still do say “home ec.” Without being ironic.
Union School
Terry County, Texas
Caution: school
Another view of the Arney School, which had burnt down just a few weeks before I saw it. Though the school itself had closed decades earlier, the building was in use as a community center.
Which makes me wonder – when a community loses its center, is it still a community?
Castro County, Texas
photographed 1.21.12
