Saturday, despite a light rain, I got the Agricultural Museum, and an abandoned feed mill. That feed mill was one of the first places I visited with my wife, so the excursion was a good start on retracing our little photo trips. Sunday morning I got the junkyard. While I was out there a young guy in a pickup stopped and asked me if I knew who owned the place. He wanted parts. I told him I had no idea, but agreed with him that it was a shame to see so much stuff sitting there and going to waste. Eventually, I'll begin posting this stuff. Until then, how about more sunflowers?
The garden in the backyard is a jungle. That's exactly what I'd hoped for.
There are zinnias, milkweed, hummingbird mint and a lot of other stuff going on as well.
Probably there will be more of this next time, until I get the new stuff downloaded from the cameras and processed. I used the Nikon Saturday and the Canon Sunday.
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.
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.
The garden in the backyard is a jungle. That's exactly what I'd hoped for.
There are zinnias, milkweed, hummingbird mint and a lot of other stuff going on as well.
Probably there will be more of this next time, until I get the new stuff downloaded from the cameras and processed. I used the Nikon Saturday and the Canon Sunday.
