I did New Deal solo without too much of a feeling of desolation/loneliness. But mostly I managed by focusing on the tasks at hand, like relocating the same things we found years ago. On the way into New Deal, exiting I-27, I found evidence of a bad accident involving a guard rail.
This had to have been a serious wreck!
I don't think I photographed this the last time, when my wife was with me. High School football is a big deal in these little towns.
There was only one spot worth a few pics, and I relocated it without much trouble.
This is it.
It has not changed much.
It looked like the same old junk, or treasures, with some new stuff, or treasures.
I don't think this VW was there last time. It's been a few years.
I heard music coming from inside this place! Maybe somebody lives here?
I tried to get more views of the surroundings than I did the last time.
That truck kind of sums up what Texas is all about, at least in this area.
This is where we are.
In South Texas a stump like this would rot away, but here, it just dries out and turns hard as a brick.
There is really not much to see in New Deal, in my opinion. Probably even less to do if you discount high school football.
I found one more funky old building to photograph, and then I left. Next time, it'll be some views of the surrounding country as I left New Deal. I stopped at the abandoned recycling center on the way back to Lubbock. It's still wide open and there are NO no trespassing signs-- no effort to restrict access at all. Probably toxic in some areas. That would be no surprise, but I don't think any soil testing has taken place.
Yes, last Sunday I drove to New Deal, which was one of the early places I visited with my wife, and then when I finished taking pics in New Deal I stopped at the old, abandoned, recycling center on I-27 across from the airport, which was another early place where my wife and I explored and took photos. And then on the way back I went through downtown Lubbock and got some more shots of the old Citizen's Tower building. It is still being renovated, and, really, to me the structure looks unsound. Of course, I am not an engineer. I used a telephoto in a lot of my pics Sunday. I covered New Deal a little better than I did the last time. Not much there to photograph, really.
I thought about all the places we traveled and I really can spend the rest of my life re-exploring all the places we visited: Plainview, Brownfield, Tahoka, Levelland, Meadow, Spur, Ropesville, Slaton, Shallowater, Crosbyton, Anton, Abernathy, Canyon, Lorenzo, Ralls, New Braunfels, New Home, Floydada, Petersburg, Littlefield, and more, and then the many, many, locations in Lubbock... and we made repeat visits to all of these places and found new things every time. I'm sure I've forgotten a lot. Eventually I'll have an RC camera plane again, and I can take it with me and do aerial photos in locations out of town. That will keep me busy enough.
But before all of this, how about some more of those SUNFLOWERS? They are a bit past their prime at this point, but still interesting.
It has been too hot and too dry for too long, I can water a lot but the tap water is hard, salty, and has a choramine residual. Rain water would be nice but there has not been much of that. Lubbock's crap climate is getting crappier as human-generated greenhouse gases heat up the planet.
This stuff changes constantly.
While I was giving two of my wife's classmates an informal tour of Lubbock (they were here for the Lubbock High School 63rd Reunion) I found a house to photograph.
These two ladies came here from Dallas and remarked that Lubbock seemed like a ghost town to them-- not much traffic compared to Dallas. That's a GOOD thing.
This had to have been a serious wreck!
I don't think I photographed this the last time, when my wife was with me. High School football is a big deal in these little towns.
There was only one spot worth a few pics, and I relocated it without much trouble.
This is it.
It has not changed much.
It looked like the same old junk, or treasures, with some new stuff, or treasures.
I don't think this VW was there last time. It's been a few years.
I heard music coming from inside this place! Maybe somebody lives here?
I tried to get more views of the surroundings than I did the last time.
That truck kind of sums up what Texas is all about, at least in this area.
This is where we are.
In South Texas a stump like this would rot away, but here, it just dries out and turns hard as a brick.
There is really not much to see in New Deal, in my opinion. Probably even less to do if you discount high school football.
I found one more funky old building to photograph, and then I left. Next time, it'll be some views of the surrounding country as I left New Deal. I stopped at the abandoned recycling center on the way back to Lubbock. It's still wide open and there are NO no trespassing signs-- no effort to restrict access at all. Probably toxic in some areas. That would be no surprise, but I don't think any soil testing has taken place. 
