Lubbock Sights 17

 So it's cold and windy and there might be a few snow flurries. So far not so bad. Tomorrow we should be heading back out of this stuff, with clear skies and a definite warming trend. Sounds good to me.

I've decided to pair my link list at the bottom to various hard sciences. Better that way. 

Lubbock Sights 16

 Clear skies but windy and cold. Darn! The National Weather Service Forecast is milder than the local ones, so I'm going to go with the NWS. But I got a lot accomplished yesterday, more than I expected to be able to do. And that is good. 

Ephemera! It's all ephemera, isn't it? Some people welcome change, and others, like me, detest it. I positively and absolutely loathe change. To some extent, I always have. 

More Lubbock Sights

 Nice enough today but another cold SNAP beginning tomorrow. Won't last long though, it seems. Can't be sure of anything. I guess I'd better do today whatever needs to be done the rest of this week. And that's not really very much, fortunately. 

I think more extreme closeups are in order, more detail, more effort to reveal the things that are hidden within the things we ordinarily see. Something like that. That will be my focus in future efforts. Meanwhile, I have to complete this series, such as it is. But the strategy I've alluded to here will make it possible for me to visit familiar places, comforting places because of that familiarity, and extract more. More and more I like less and less to do anything new or see anything new or go to any new location. My "world" is contracting, and I like that very much. 

Lubbock Sights 14

 Well well it warms again. Screw winter. Tired of it. No rain, and the drought rolls on. If these dry conditions prove to be a new normal, it is hard to see how Lubbock and the small towns around Lubbock survive. Can the well fields support a city like Lubbock, with no surface water reservoirs? Everything seems to be predicated on enough annual rainfall to sustain those reservoirs. How about a declining water table for the near surface wells used by most of the small towns around here? How much more water can be pulled from an aquifer that, for all practical purposes, in terms of a human life span, does not recharge?? It's a finite resource. Nobody wants to think about such things. Onward and upward bigger and better boosterism will smash into a wall at some point. It won't be pretty.

There is a very high probability that the future will look like this.

Lubbock Sights 13

 I would never have imagined, when I took these photos, that things would become so screwed up in the relatively near future. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it. Winter isn't giving up. Cold crap again. No rain no rain no rain. Dry dry dry. 

Lubbock is over-built and over developed, in my opinion. The available water resources won't support a population like this for very long. It can't be done. I hope I'll be gone before this house of cards comes crashing down. And it will. I guarantee it. The only unknown is the precise timeline. You could say the same thing about human civilization. A bang or a whimper? Either way, it goes away.