A Long Time Ago

I got the new/old camera with the 10x zoom and will try it out this weekend. Until then, let us remember a time when there used to be a music festival at the Buddy Holly Center on Buddy Holly's birthday. I went to one of those, a long time ago, and took these pics. These were once posted on Unofficial Lubbock, my lamented website, long vanished. 

There were lots of great cars!

There was music and there was dancing!

And it all happened a long time ago!

I was so much younger then! I'm older than that now...

Memorial Day 2018

I am not doing much because it is HOT and all the crazy drivers are out on the streets and highways today. I put up our flag because it was a tradition with my wife to do that on Memorial Day and July 4th. I will continue that tradition. I cut roses but they are suffering from the heat. It rained recently but not even remotely enough. Still in a drought and now days and days of 100 degree + (F) temps are on tap with no relief in sight. I got everything done outside that I needed to do before noon but it was sweltering by the time I finished.
Good time to put up some pics, I guess. Continuing what I started the last time...

Ordered a camera from an eBay seller recently and it has a 10x optical zoom. I find that I need a lot of zoom.

These are commercial buildings and the people who work in these place know what work is. I used to work like that. Operating a turret lathe for an irrigation company was probably the hardest I had to work, since it required constant heavy lifting. Poor ventilation, no AC. I smelled of machine oil and couldn't wash it away. But that was just a summer job. Working for the Texas Highway Department near San Antonio one summer, I was required to remove roadkill from the highways. That was dicey. Dodging traffic with a large scoop and sometimes the poor mashed animals fell apart when I scooped them up, so I had to make a second and sometimes third trip to get all the ripe pieces. After that, bury them, of course, using pick and shovel. Rough job. I was always in danger of becoming road kill myself. 

That's all of those pics. I am so nostalgic for the days when it actually rained in Lubbock, that I'm going to put up pics I took years ago, over ten years ago, of the aftermath of a real rain. It was a flood event, actually. It's been a very long time since we've had one of those. Eight years?

McKenzie Park, Broadway entrance.

 The overflowing dam is at Mae Simmons Park.

This took place before the city spent a lot of money on a storm drainage system, just for rain events like this.

It was kind of nice when the playa lakes flooded like this-- unless you lived too close to one.
And now some experiments with a keychain camera in the garden. I could not get the darn thing to take still photos. These are screen caps from movies, so the quality is not very good.

This, above, is what the dumpster in the alley had in it at that time, preserved now for posterity.

This is the new birdhouse I built last winter. I put it up in the early spring of 2017.

I like a garden that is half-wild and like a small jungle. 

In the list of links below, in the link to Lubbock High School reunions, I added all the pics I had of the 2013 reunion, which was the first one I attended. I spend more and more time with memories.