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3 feral chairs and a tire
Just a pile of junk behind a building that was itself in fairly bad condition…
Pyote, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
it was as sad as it was predictable
It’s way it goes out here in these declining rural towns: eventually the cost of keeping a school district going hits the economics of ever-declining enrollments and before you know it, the schools have consolidated themselves into one county-wide district. And the former school buildings – no longer necessary – fall over or burn down or otherwise fade from relevance.
Pyote, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
pump jack
Maybe that pump jack back there behind the building renders the effort of keeping an out-in-the-country liquor store open unnecessary? Or maybe it depends on oil prices?
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 3.11.2022
IT to the rescue
My knowledge of workplace safety protocols comes from officing across the hall from my agency’s risk manager for about eight years*. So there’s a chance I could be wrong in thinking that wheelchairs are not generally accepted as a safe substitute for ladder.
Love Field
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.10.2022
*And also from not being a total idiot.
surveilling the surveillance trailer
Kudos to my pal Heidi for spotting a surveillance trailer. We are not too sure what, exactly, it was surveilling, but we realize that for a few minutes, it was likely to have been us.
near Tahoka, Texas
photographed 3.6.2022
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