Lubbock Windmills

You see a lot of windmills in this area. But not many are functioning-- they are mostly restorations for display and educational purposes. Here are pics of a few, some from the National Ranching Heritage Center and some from the Wind Power Center:

 

Lubbock in Black & White

These are from last weekend's harvest of pics, taken around town. We just stopped here and there. As usual, first I post the "starkers" type of pics, and then I do the others. I also have a lot of older pics of various sights and scenes I will be posting. This blog with be very pic heavy!

All the stuff above can be found along 34th Street, where construction seems to go on without end. This has to be the slowest construction project in town. Traffic disruption has taken a toll on small businesses. If there is anything the city council hates, it's a mom and pop style, small, locally owned business.

Completing Texas Tech 2014

These are the last of the recent pics:

The fact that I have finished this series with a pile of pigeon crap should not be in any way construed as a commentary upon anything. It just worked out like that. Besides, it's real. It's there. 

More Fall 2014 Texas Tech Campus Pics

Texas Tech University has a very large campus, but it is also very attractive and consistent in style. But some of these photos reveal the signs of age and a need for repair. The older buildings need some work. In that last photo you see rotted window frames and sills. Not good. I see a lot of that rotten woodwork in the older structures, as well as crumbling masonry and grime.

More Texas Tech 2014 Pics

This is just continuing the series taken last weekend. Many more to go... this is just an area in and around the Science Quadrangle. TTU has a HUGE campus.

The last two pics bring waves of nostalgia for me, because the area used to be part of Agricultural Engineering and I worked there once, as a part-timer, under Dr. Ulich. Whatever happened to Dr. Ulich? Nice guy. He would be retired, surely. I enjoyed the work. Now, I think these buildings just seem to be used for storage.