Colorado Trip
Spent the other weekend visiting family in SE Colorado. As promised, pics.
Wiley, taken from the step of my sister's house. The rental car I got in Pueblo can be seen at right. Somehow ended up with the exact same make model and color car that Tracy has. Crazy. The shifter was supposed to be automatic, but in the "D" slot there was a + and a -. Every 20mph the engine went RRRRRRRRRRR like it was working way too hard. A thunk to the + and it settled down. There's no clutch, but there's this very videogame-like version of Manual. Weird.
In Lamar proper, where I lived from ages 2-15. The tan building is the old Halliburton Camp that my Dad ran while we lived there. When Halliburton transitioned from Oil Well Servicing to let's call it Evil, a lot of these camps (yes they called them camps) were closed. The white building to the left was their cement plant. They tell me this was a trucking company for a while, and now it just sits there, framed by a Subway sign.
I think this is Holly.
More big sky shots. It's something I miss. Lubbock had it too.
Out at the Lamar Cemetery. Tracy, Jessica, Jerri, and Mom. We were hunting up some tombstones for my neverending genealogy research.
They built a no-kidding coal plant INSIDE CITY LIMITS in Lamar. It hasn't fired up yet--that's for the courts to decide. My question is, did the city planners get new Lexuses or something? This thing is the Lamar skyline at night. It's the tallest thing for miles. It's just like the little contradictions I use to make cities come alive in my writing. Cities are made with bizarre compromises.
Wiley, taken from the step of my sister's house. The rental car I got in Pueblo can be seen at right. Somehow ended up with the exact same make model and color car that Tracy has. Crazy. The shifter was supposed to be automatic, but in the "D" slot there was a + and a -. Every 20mph the engine went RRRRRRRRRRR like it was working way too hard. A thunk to the + and it settled down. There's no clutch, but there's this very videogame-like version of Manual. Weird.
In Lamar proper, where I lived from ages 2-15. The tan building is the old Halliburton Camp that my Dad ran while we lived there. When Halliburton transitioned from Oil Well Servicing to let's call it Evil, a lot of these camps (yes they called them camps) were closed. The white building to the left was their cement plant. They tell me this was a trucking company for a while, and now it just sits there, framed by a Subway sign.
I think this is Holly.
More big sky shots. It's something I miss. Lubbock had it too.
Out at the Lamar Cemetery. Tracy, Jessica, Jerri, and Mom. We were hunting up some tombstones for my neverending genealogy research.
They built a no-kidding coal plant INSIDE CITY LIMITS in Lamar. It hasn't fired up yet--that's for the courts to decide. My question is, did the city planners get new Lexuses or something? This thing is the Lamar skyline at night. It's the tallest thing for miles. It's just like the little contradictions I use to make cities come alive in my writing. Cities are made with bizarre compromises.
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