After about five inches of rain it is looking really good again. Now the stuff that blooms in the fall is opening up and all of a sudden I'm getting lots of tomatoes.
It was dry and hot when I took these photos.
I'll have to scrub the birdbaths, eventually. Lots of work to do over the winter and into the spring.
Well, next time I'll have some stuff from downtown Lubbock, and a few things that will be sort of off the beaten path.
There were new things to photograph. I plant stuff to come up at different times of the year. Next year it will be even better. And after this I picked a gloomy and rainy day to explore an alley in Lubbock's downtown. This is yet another area I visited with my wife. I am so happy to be retracing the history of our urban exploration with new and better cameras! I used the Kodak for this, and it performed very well.
It makes me happy to take these pics and post them here, even though I have no audience but Russian Bots hawking filth and spyware and malware. The world would be a better place if we could nuke Russia out of existence, or, at the very least, kill Vladimir (The Abomination) Putin.
No, no, I am only being satirical. We don't have to worry about Putin. His days are numbered.
Even the sunflowers are looking fairly good, this late in the season.
Well, well. There will be even more from the garden next time.
I returned to the water tower on Avenue W. We photographed that structure very early. We were not even married yet.
I know all sorts of thing about Lubbock's water infrastructure and I wanted to share some of my knowledge with my soon-to-be-wife. She had a healthy curiosity about how things worked in the city and I could explain to her a few things.
This building is deserted now and is for sale, but before we were married we attended a sixtieth wedding anniversary here. I don't remember the connection to my wife but she got an invitation and she seems to have known them from way back. Family friends? I don't think they were classmates. Needless to say, I did not know anyone there but I made polite conversation.
This ruin on Avenue A is yet another place we visited in the early days. It used to be "Air Gas" and when I was a Chemist and running a GC/mass spec and an ICP and several other instruments that required various compressed gases, I ordered them from this company. I got everything except large containers of cryogenic argon-- I had to order that from another company and eventually I switched business to someone who could supply ALL of our gases, which made things a lot simpler for me. Once, an 800 lb container of cryogenic argon dropped off the dolly and onto my foot. I was worried that the container would rupture and I would become a human popsicle. Fortunately that did not happen. My foot was even OK. The kind of lab work I did was rather hazardous. Carcinogens, nerve toxins, hypergolics, outright poisons, high voltages, intense UV, explosive gases, bio-hazards and finally radioactive materials. That's why I got out of it as soon as I could. Did I mention the legal hazards? I was responsible for storing chemicals and disposing of waste according to the code of federal regulations AND any applicable state law. Phew. Am I ever happy to be out of that! I've been out of that since about 2004.
These ruins seem to be all that is left of "Air Gas".
Memories!
Here's the view along Avenue A at this location.
It was dry and hot when I took these photos. 
I'll have to scrub the birdbaths, eventually. Lots of work to do over the winter and into the spring.
Well, next time I'll have some stuff from downtown Lubbock, and a few things that will be sort of off the beaten path.
