Rural Decay, June, 2021

There is a small Texas town that I drive by on my trips westward and each time I go through it, I think I should someday take time to get off the highway and see what is in this old Texas town.  Finally, on one of my homeward bound trips, I did just that.

This is not a ghost town, there are still residents, businesses, a post office, city hall, and some modern improvements, but I found numerous abandoned businesses in and around the downtown area and even an older, abandoned city hall.

I shot numerous photos, but many of the settings and the mid-day light were not conducive to getting interesting shots, so I’ve greatly culled the images to present in this post and I had to do some creative editing to add interest to these images.

There is a crumbling building that was an auto sales business long ago.

Given the smallness of this Texas town, I was surprised to find the remnants of an auto sales place here.  This one appears to have been abandoned many years ago.

The back side of one of the downtown area’s abandoned business had a couple of windows, one of which had concrete rebar installed for security.

The adjacent window had no bars and the lower glass pane was missing.

A street corner building had an interesting looking backside.  The image above is cropped from a wider view to remove distracting items.  The monochrome conversion seems more fitting for this subject than the original color version.

Thanks for following,

Ken