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No Swimming

I’ve been to this swimming pool before, five years ago, and made almost exactly this same photo. I know what I like, right? (Or I’m in a half-decade-long rut.)

But wait – coming soon to this very blog is a photo of a small-town swimming pool that is still in operation! Aren’t you so excited?

Spur, Texas
photographed 6.10.2020

Disenchantment

I guess the pool never got drained at the end of last summer. It didn’t look at all inviting in the spring. I mean, it wasn’t as bad as some pools I’ve seen, but still it was a far cry from the sparkling ready-for-summer pool that I wanted to see.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 4.4.2020

Winter pool

Here’s the town swimming pool, a couple of days after Christmas. Evidently the lifeguards get different jobs in the winter months.

Canadian, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019

Hotel pool

This other project I’m working on has been keeping me busy to the point where I haven’t been able to get out and make new photos. Sorry about that, but at least this one is new to all my follower(s) even though I actually made it a couple of years ago.

If you’re wondering what the Hampton Inn pool looks like at dawn, this ought to help. Although I can’t imagine why anyone would wonder about that…

Lafayette, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

The days of a sparkling pool were over

The Patient Spouse and I had a long-ish conversation about the best way to describe that awful-looking water in the swimming pool.

He won: he said it looked like molasses.

what’s left of the Days Inn
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.22.2019