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number 8, on the move

Number eight, over there on the right is in the fifth grade. She’s been playing soccer since she was in pre-Kindergarten. She’s also played volleyball, basketball, and softball. She plays golf with her dad and can’t wait until she’s old enough to run track at school.

This season, she’s also playing flag football so there are two games almost every Saturday.

And she’s my granddaughter Bennett.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.21.2024

decorative water

You could hear this little fountain before you could see it. Or photograph it, as far as that goes.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 9.2.2024

roadside jesus

There were two or three people out that day, wearing yellow safety vests and cleaning up litter from the roadside. If my memory is correct, that section of the highway had been adopted in memory of someone; it’s reasonable to assume the people I saw were related to the in-memory-of person.

Anyway, this wagon was partly filled with some of the larger trash they’d picked up that day.

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024

the rocks

This place right here. You should go. It is unbelievable.

Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark 
Gove County, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024

antique

 

Ness City is the kind of place where there’s a building nicknamed “The Skyscraper of the Plains.” And it’s four stories tall*.

To be fair the SOTP is a pretty fantastic building, made from stone and full of grand architectural details. There are other once-elegant buildings in town which makes me think the place was once a wealthy town.

So of course I spent most of my time in town checking out the truck with a carpet, carpet padding, and a chair. It was very nice.

Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024

*Or three. It depends on which Wikipedia article you’re looking at. The SOTP also has a basement, so who even knows what’s going on with the floor-count.