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Circular Steps

This beautiful set of steps leads to a red door of a Real Estate Office not too far from my house.  It's a beautiful old building.  The steps are unique for the area.

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TEN 18

One of the buildings in downtown Abilene has these letters on it.  The building seems to be vacant right now.

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Protective Railing on Basement Window

One of the buildings in downtown Abilene has these protective railings on the basement windows.  They're really beautiful even though the basement windows are boarded closed now.

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Abandoned Sanctuary

This is the inside of an abandoned country church.  The church sits next to a cemetery.  

The interior seems to be in pretty good condition.  There was no information anywhere in or around  the structure indicating what church it was or the years it was active.

It must have been a sweet congregation.

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Abandoned School Building

This abandoned building is located in Stamford, Texas.  It looks like it was a school building once upon a time, but the plaque above the door had the name

"Brotherly Love Bible Mission".

It might have morphed into a mission.  There were no other identifiers on or near the property to say what the structure had been.  

I can just imagine, in my mind's eye, students walking up those stairs to attend classes at one time.  I could be completely wrong, but imagination is a good thing.

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Abandoned School Bldg?

This old abandoned building is in Stamford, Texas.  It looks like it was originally a school bldg, but there was no sign or information to say what it had been.  

The interior was totally trashed and as you can see some of the windows were completely gone.  

Just take several steps back in your mind to imagine what a beautiful building this once was. 

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Lavender Front Door

I passed this house with this beautiful front door.  

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Traffic

On the way to Waco we encountered a train on the rails stopped across the car crossing.  We thought it would only last a little while but we waited about 45 minutes.  What was the train doing? 

Shouldn't it be illegal to stop traffic for that long?

Anyway, we finally let the kids get out of their car seats so they could move around a little, and I got my camera out and took some photos~~nothing interesting but it was better than twiddling my thumbs.

My heart is grateful that:

the stopped train wasn't because of an accident

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Looking up from the basement

It was such a beautiful day today.  I sat in the house long enough then I had to get out and enjoy the mild temperatures.  I despaired of getting any new images, but I surprised myself and I managed to get quite a few, although none of them are world class or startling good.  They're just images to fill in all the days I've fallen behind in my photo-a-day project.

My heart is grateful that: 

the weather was so beautiful today

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Looking Up at the Fire Escape

I found another fire escape in downtown Abilene today.  This building is two-stories tall so it was pretty easy to photograph the entire fire escape.  I just happen to like this image of just the small section.

My heart is grateful today for:

The smile on my grandson's face when I showed up at his lesson today

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Abstract Shadow on Steps

I don't normally like abstracts.  My brain has a hard time making sense of them, although I hear from others that that's exactly why they do like abstracts.  To each their own I guess.

Anyway, while walking around downtown, I saw these cement steps with the railing shadow cascading down the steps.  I thought it looked very cool, so there you have it.

My heart is grateful today for:

Amazon Prime free (haha) delivery

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Cement steps and red brick building

This building was an abandoned warehouse.  A couple of years ago it was purchased by a local church and revitalized into an extremely popular coffee house.  I seem to remember hearing that some of the proceeds go to missionary ventures.  Maybe that's why their prices are a little higher than other coffee houses in the area.  

I'm grateful today:

for the great phone conversation I had with my daughter who lives many states away

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People on line to enter chambers on the second day of Legislative Day at the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin, Texas. 

I took this image with my cell phone's pano function.  I've never tried that before and someone I was talking with showed me a photo she took, so of course, I had to try it.  The pano function elongated the roundness of the floor we were on.  I just think it's so interesting.