That's what I did for Easter recreation. It's time to get this blog active again, for 2019, which will probably not be a very good year for most of us. But let's make the best of a bad situation. Let's look at LUBBOCK!! Let's put LUBBOCK under the lens!
Parts of this town already look like the aftermath of a mass extinction event. And I've decided not to reduce file sizes, if I can help it. So if anyone wants to download a pic, you can have it in full resolution. I'm giving them away. Because I don't think it really matters.
Working this way saves me time and trouble and I think my internet connection is fast enough to deal with the uploads.
I lurked around an abandoned K-Mart near a nearly hidden playa lake, among other places, photographing a number of "Lubbock Angels" impaled upon barbed wire.
A double-screen drive-in theater known as The Golden Horseshoe occupied the land, once, where this defunct K-Mart now stands, and the lake was at the back of the theater.
Bleak!
Even more bleak! More of this good stuff next time! In full resolution!
Texas Tech men's basketball is doing well in the tournament and they have a very important game today. This morning I saw this Raider flag flying from the topmost mast of a TV broadcast tower. I got a few shots with telephoto:
Who put it there. The station? I'm estimating you'd have to climb up about 350 feet. Nice job!
The sunflowers come back. I decided to photograph what was left of the back garden before I began to clear it out for replanting later. Also, Google is changing the blogs and I preemptively downgraded my blogs from Google + to plain Google blogs, to see what I might lose. It looks like I'm not going to lose much of anything. I never saw the point of Google + anyway.
I think Google wanted to try to have more Facebook-like features. I loathe and detest Facebook anyway. I think people who are really gung ho on Facebook have some serious cognitive/emotional maturity issues. Same applies to twitter twerps and twits.
And don't you just feel sorry for nitwits who spend all of their time texting? Their thumbs should fall off.
I know what we need! More of that wholesome garden stuff!
Now we hear that major investment and redevelopment is in the works. Look like someday it might not be funky anymore. So let's appreciate it while we can.
I'd hate to see all this go away.
In the alley I found an open door, with an ice cold draft coming up from the depths. Very sinister.
This is yet another BAD PLACE!!
If I explored this building I would want to be well-armed. Best not to attempt that.
Driving around in downtown Lubbock is not a great experience. Old brick streets pulverize your shock absorbers, or struts, one-way streets suddenly become two-way or two-way streets suddenly become one-way and you are going the wrong direction. Deep trenches threaten to rip the front end off your car or truck. Downtown Lubbock is pretty much crap in terms of driving or parking. And yet the county courthouse is smack in the middle. God help you if you have business there, or jury duty. On the other hand, it is funky. There's a lot of old stuff.
Downtown Lubbock impresses me as the sort of place you'd expect vampires to hang out. Maybe that explains all the law offices.
I guess we will see, in coming years, whether any of this area can actually be salvaged.
Parts of this town already look like the aftermath of a mass extinction event. And I've decided not to reduce file sizes, if I can help it. So if anyone wants to download a pic, you can have it in full resolution. I'm giving them away. Because I don't think it really matters.
Working this way saves me time and trouble and I think my internet connection is fast enough to deal with the uploads. 
I lurked around an abandoned K-Mart near a nearly hidden playa lake, among other places, photographing a number of "Lubbock Angels" impaled upon barbed wire. 
A double-screen drive-in theater known as The Golden Horseshoe occupied the land, once, where this defunct K-Mart now stands, and the lake was at the back of the theater.
Bleak!
Even more bleak! More of this good stuff next time! In full resolution!
