Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Uncovering More Lubbock

Yep, it feels good to be puttin' up my pics again. Welcome to Lubbock and welcome to the South Plains. That is the area I generally document. 




I am still exploring behind the old K-Mart. 



After examining that area, I tried downtown. Always something to see there.


 They've been working on this building for a long time. Someday it might even be finished.

Kind of a sad story here. I won't go into that. Artifacts remain. And we will see some next time.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Skulking Around Lubbock...

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!

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Go Raiders!

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!

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Just When You Thought It Was Safe

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!