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Lizard + Shack
Day eight, of an eight-day trip – that’s when the Patient Spouse became the Spouse. As I pulled the car over (after making a u-turn to get to back to this spot), he said, “I think I need to find something to do where you have to stand around and watch me.”
Message received.
But I still made this shot. You’d’ve done the same thing – who could pass up the lizard and that shack?
Trinidad, Colorado
photographed 8.30.2016
Dusty ghosts of time
Sometimes when I make these through-dirty-windows shots, I don’t know what’s going to show up in the image. Like this one – I didn’t expect the statues down there at the front of the church. Or that card table.
what’s left of the Catholic church
Trinchera, Colorado
photographed 9.5.2016
The guard trees
The internet told me that Matheson, Colorado, has a population on 94. My eyes told me that number seemed sort of exaggerated.
I wouldn’t have been here at all, except that I decided (on a whim that turned into an Absolute Mission) that on our trip to Colorado, we would completely avoid driving on any Interstates. That made for some interesting routes, and included quite a few miles on unpaved roads.
One of those unpaved roads brought us here, to an abandoned church guarded by dead trees.
Matheson, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2016
First Date
In the summer of 1974, I went to this restaurant for a date with a boy who would go on to become my ex-boyfriend.
The restaurant fared better, and lasted until just a couple of years ago. New owners decided on a full-scale renovation before re-opening; unfortunately they were in over their heads and the renovation wasn’t completed. The building’s vacant and nothing seems to be going on there at all. Except for the usual incremental deterioration, which will probably only get noticed after it’s too late to stop it.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.27.2016
What “out of business” looks like
When the voters in Levelland approved alcohol sales in the city limits, this out-on-the-highway liquor store lost its reason for existence.
Opdyke West, Texas
photographed 4.23.2016
One Day | One Image 