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christmas (lights) in july

First of all, if you see cloth-covered electrical wires on home decor, it’s probably because it’s a real design-y lamp. If you see cloth-covered electrical wires on an abandoned building, it probably because at the place is old AF and was/is a fire hazard.

But at least the switch was off.

Secondly, how about those Christmas lights, which look for all the world like someone painted them?

Tahoka, Texas
photographed 7.13.2025

at a cross road

When I come home with new photos to edit, one of my regular tools – in addition to Lightroom and Photoshop – is Google street view. I can get the exact street name, for example, or what a particular business is called instead of whatever name my name gave it (“junky hair salon” is very rarely the actual business name, for example). But anyway, that’s how I know for sure that the cross painted on this utility box has been there since at least May 2023.

Tahoka, Texas
photographed 7.13.2025

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

How many stops did it used to take?

I guess the main question here is how many stops did it USED to take to get a burrito?

Tahoka, Texas
photographed 3.6.2022

the better part of valor

This small-town beauty shop is practicing an admirable degree of discretion by placing a decorative screen in front of the salon – I guess they think nobody needs to see what, exactly, is going on in there.

Tahoka, Texas
photographed 3.6.2022