Lubbock!

As usual, I took these pics in EAST LUBBOCK, a part of town nobody seems to care about, and that includes the worthless deadheads on the city council who are supposed to represent this area.

We were in this area because I was trying to find a place where I worked, once, years and years ago, in a small business making shutters for mobile homes. I think the vacant lot is where the building once stood. 

The site seems to be yet another illegal dump. Lots of those in Lubbock County... 

Trying To Finish Plainview

I really want to leave Plainview so I can move on to more pics taken in Lubbock, and then get to the pics I took in Brownfield. 

Plainview is done.

I Like Brownfield!

Yesterday my wife and I took 62/82 to Brownfield to check out an estate sale. Right away, I liked the drive. I liked the highway, I liked the view, I liked the small towns we passed through on the way, like Meadow and Ropesville, and I immediately liked Brownfield. It has a population of only about 10,000 but it looks prosperous, the downtown is not dead, and it has terrific neighborhoods. It actually seems to have building codes and enforced zoning restrictions. It has nice schools. The estate sale was in a great old ranch style house, with lots of room. It was in immaculate condition, in a beautiful neighborhood, and had a great yard. We found some nice things there. And then we just drove around. We found a locally owned steak house with great food and low prices and that's where we ate lunch. The people we met were friendly and not one of them seemed otherworldly, or to be the morbid product of generations of in-breeding. I found things to photograph, bought some old tools in an antique store, and enjoyed my visit. Amazing what a change of direction will produce.

More Scenes Of Plainview, Texas

Small towns like these rarely provide much incentive for the best and brightest of their young people to stick around, and it shows.

And you really would not expect a significant influx of new blood. So, with the best and brightest escaping at the earliest opportunity, and a limited gene pool, a few "leading" families interbreeding generation after generation, is it any wonder that rural communities get a little strange?

Not Finished With Plainview

I mentioned the odd problem I had with my Canon Powershot after visiting Plainview, and the identical problem with my wife's identical camera. Yesterday I checked her camera again, after throwing mine in the trash, and it worked normally. This is really inexplicable, unless the alien or time-traveler we encountered in Plainview decided to have some gentle fun at our expense! I never want to get anywhere close to Plainview, ever again! Brrrr!