I'm starting with photos taken day before yesterday, looking in the direction of a storm that became tornadic and spawned several funnels. It had just passed over Lubbock, heading to the East.
And the photo above shows our little wildflower garden, getting soaked again, by more rain. It was raining, and the sun was shining!
The next photos were taken a long way out on South University, where it seems that every house has at least one junked car on the property... these were taken the weekend before our first of a series of torrential rains.
This car is a fifties Packard, and it needs to be restored!
When we returned to Lubbock from New Braunfels we stopped at the only McDonalds in Lamesa. Right across the street is/was a local monument-- been there for years and years. I finally got a couple of pictures and then shortly afterward learned that the old Cadillac on the roof is gone, purchased at an undisclosed price for restoration. I hope to someday see it in restored form. I'll miss it. I've been driving through Lamesa for many years and have always seen it, up on the roof of that old building with the tall, brick, smokestack. What WAS that building anyway? A power plant? A factory?
Meanwhile, the towns of Tahoka and Seagraves have been hard hit by flooding. Seagraves is a town we have not yet visited. And we'll have to wait for the flood waters to subside before we do go there. Just about the whole town is under water.
After this, a glimpse of Lamesa, and then back to Lubbock.
I've got to say, Lubbock has had an amazing amount of rain recently. If that goes on, we'll be a lot less brown.
Lush! Green! Old! The city dates back to about 1846-- that's history! The folks who settled that area were the cream of the crop, well-educated, intelligent, enterprising. They were escaping Germanic militarism and regimentation. They valued education and hard work.
Those old German settlers were surprisingly tolerant for their day; pretty easy-going. It's tough to say whether the first things they built were churches or breweries... both were considered important. The brewery in Shiner is still making the best beer in the world.
Many would say, it's a vastly better place to live than Lubbock. They'd have a lot of good arguments on their side. For various reasons, we are happy to remain in Lubbock.
What's hard to deal with, in this part of Texas, is the heat and the humidity. In New Braunfels, it can be a little overwhelming.
And the photo above shows our little wildflower garden, getting soaked again, by more rain. It was raining, and the sun was shining!
This car is a fifties Packard, and it needs to be restored!
