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📷 These "Estate Homes from the Low 410s" are going up at the intersection of two busy-and-getting-busier 4-lane roads. It's a bottleneck for traffic attempting to avoid major routes to another part of town. There is no zoning or planning in the County.

Note the ample lot size. They'll be sold before they're finished.

The land was a large peach orchard. No trees will be planted by the builders.

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📷 "The Super's House" facing the now-demolished c. 1910 cotton mill where "Townhomes from the mid-210s" are being built.

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📷 Gus & Jack, twin burn barrels and the neighbor's rurnt Chevy truck—all under a Carolina blue sky.

Ain't life grand!

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📷 "Single-Wide"

July, 2023.

This vintage trailer ("manufactured home") was moved to what was a large yard of another, new mobile home.

I'm glad they kept the majestic oak.

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📷 Out for a minute this morning, and I spotted this semi-trailer with a message from "God" on the side.

"It's Obvious You Are On The Wrong Road. Follow Me Detour Signs" ...God

That's the local megachurch just beyond it. And some wonder why I call this little hellhole "Jesusville!"

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📷 Under Those Blue Ridge Mountain Skies

Same shot, different day. July 25, 2023, 4:44 PM

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📷 "There Will Be Watermelon"

This "Sugar Baby" weighs in at about 12 lbs. (5.5 kg) and cost $2.99 ("On Sale"). The melon was grown within a few miles of where I'm writing this—"local produce."

She's been in the fridge for almost 48 hours and will be coldcold at the slicing ceremony this afternoon. BIL has agreed to do the honors. I don't fare well with large knives and even-larger melons.

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📷 I shoot this intersection often. It's the only "red light" for a few miles around. If I'm waiting for the light to change, I'll snap one out the window.

This shot was last night, about 7:30. Pretty dead, huh? Not much goes on around here.

I'm headed to Circle K for a cold drink re-fill: Cucumber/Lime mixed with Mango Lemonade. 😋

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📷 Coming noon, and it's already 90º and muggy here. "Feels like" 96º.

They sky is a cloud-free Carolina Blue color swatch ("Go Tarheels!"), serving a UVI of 11 (Severe).

Jack says "Heyyyy!" We're back inside after a few minutes out back last hour.

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#Update | Friday night, the building had been demolished.

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📷 Heard a loud crack of thunder while I was slicing the tomato, wiped my hands, grabbed my phone and snapped this from the back door.

It's a 3x shot of the southwest sky with the "Vivid" filter applied in Pixel7a.

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📷 It's coming up a cloud. Rain from a thunderstorm will have the same effect as pouring water on the rocks in a sauna. It's already 50% humidity and (feels-like) 98º, and the UVI is "Extreme"-ly 11.

I can duck back into the A/C, but not everyone can. I feel fortunate.

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📷 I shot a stupid number of pictures yesterday (+/- 200), most in the evening when the sky was clearly tripping on good weed or mushrooms.

This was the western sky at 7:29 PM from the Circle K parking lot.

July 13, 2023.

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📷 Snake in the driveway, Wednesday about 6 PM. I'd been to town, was walking to the house and remembered I'd left my glasses in the glove box and turned around.

"Jesus Fucking Christ!"

Neighbors on the porch across the street who heard me but didn't see the snake looked away real quick and pretended they didn't hear my blasphemy! 😂

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📷 'm lovin' it (2023)

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📷 The skies opened up over the WalMart parking lot as I watched from my car. I leaned out the window and snapped this at 7:59 PM.

July 13, 2023.

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📷 There's a SOLD sign in the front yard of this house and the ones on either side—"parcels" for commercial development now.

This lot will be a(nother) car wash. There is no zoning, and a small town is being paved over for mostly chain retail stores and restaurants at a rapid clip.

The rurnt house isn't a loss, but the grand cedar tree out front surely is.

July 13, 2023.

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📷 Under Those Blue Ridge Mountain Skies, July 13, 2023, 8:23 PM.

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