More From Erskine

Actually, it's more from an AREA, just OFF Erskine, in North Lubbock. As though it matters. 

To me, the memories matter. We really enjoyed snooping around off the beaten path.

This time I paid more attention to some old cars, old wrecks, behind one of the buildings. Strange sounds emanated from that building. Human voices that seemed to be chanting over sounds suggestive of a heavy metal plate being pounded by hammers.  I decided not to linger too long. It would have been easy to make me disappear, along with my car.  Both could vanish without a trace... whenever I visited places like this with my wife I'd leave her in the car with the motor running, in the driver's seat, ready to make a quick exit and call for help with her iphone. You never know what you are going to stumble into-- a chop shop? a meth lab?
A bunch of nutty Texicans?? Gang-bangers???

I might have been on somebody's surveillance camera. You never know.

Unoccupied. Vacant.

There's nothing like the boonies! The FRINGES!
This weekend I'm taking the Nikon to a new junkyard I discovered on a dirt road in a location to be disclosed later, and also to Lubbock's Museum of Agriculture. These are places I did not visit with my wife. It will take time to process the photos, so until then, I will be putting up more pics of Sunflowers. That's always a safe bet.

It really will take the rest of my life to revisit all of the locations my wife and I snooped through. I should be near eighty by the time I finish. 

Off Erskine

Plenty of stuff to explore off Erskine and in the vicinity of N. Ave. Q. 

 This house is vacant.

This building has a lot of exposed asbestos in it. It seems to have had a fire in it at one time, years ago. It is a shell now.

 Again, I made use of a long-focus lens.

The asbestos is still there.

It was very, very, quiet. Places like this are almost spooky.
Last time I was here, with my wife, there was an old Opal GT across the street, sans engine, wheels, and most of the interior. It was still there. This time I did not photograph it.

What kind of place was this? Not many clues are left. It's clearly been in ruins for a long time.

So Here Is A Place I've Revisited...

Yes, I've begun to retrace steps. Of course, there is always new stuff, and I won't neglect that. For instance, I've recently examined construction at what used to be Citizen's Tower, a structure that has been vacant for years, and falling apart. But now it has been purchased by the city and will become Police Headquarters! In fact, my wife and I examined the place when it was still a ruin, so returning there qualifies as yet another site revisited.

You can't get very close, so a long focus lens came in very handy.

If fact, there is another abandoned building nearby, and, since it is close to the Salvation Army shelter downtown, there are signs that it has become a homeless encampment.

Someday there will be cops all over this area. How will that affect the homeless?

I drove around downtown Lubbock. This area fascinated both of us and we visited it many times. I will be back, again and again. Then I headed for Erskine via Municipal Drive. I had a specific location in mind...