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Hospitalization
This hospital closed for good in 2001. According to this article, at the time it closed, the hospital was the second-largest employer in town, with about 120 employees. The town itself had, at the time, about 2,200 residents, so the loss of that many jobs must have damaged the town’s economy in ways that are still being felt nearly twenty years later.
And, all these years later, there is still some stuff lying around. At this point, I guess it’s safe to assume it’ll just be here forever.
Hale Center, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
Patina
There were three very old wreckers parked inside a fenced yard. I was photographing them through the fence when the wrecker company owner invited me in to look around. (I was pretty sure he was going to invite me to move along.) He said he’d purchased all three trucks as one lot in an auction, but that this one was the one he really wanted. He said he liked the patina.
So did I.
Brady, Texas
photographed 6.14.2020
The Last Quarter
Here’s my confession: I didn’t even SEE the moon when I made the picture. I didn’t notice it until I was in Lightroom, looking for and erasing a few dust spots. And even then, I thought it was just a giant hunk of dust stuck on the sensor.
It’s a shame that I am not nearly as observant as I believe myself to be.
Katemcy, Texas
photographed 6.14.2020




