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…and then there was this thing
I can’t decide if this thing is an argument in favor of taking back roads or if it’s an argument for keeping on freeways. I can sort of argue it either way.
Stevens County, Oklahoma
photographed 11.13.2021
in memory of the lost ones
I’d lived in this part of Texas for a long time before I learned that there had been a WWII-era POW camp in Hereford, Texas. During the period between 1943 and 1946, over 5,000 Italian POWs were detained at the camp. This camp was the largest POW camp in the United States. The prisoners worked agriculture jobs, mostly, although a few of them worked painting the interiors of the Catholic church in nearby Umbarger. (Here’s more information on the camp.)
Five prisoners died at the camp; other prisoners built this chapel in their memory.
Hereford, Texas
photographed 10.8.2021
Orbs
It probably shouldn’t surprise you that this row of orbs was at the same place as yesterday’s levitating deity.
Addington, Oklahoma
photographed 11.13.2021
Levitation
If you are ever tempted to just take the freeway (or, if you’re in Oklahoma, the turnpike) to reach your destination, that is surely your choice. But you need to know that you can’t see this…thing? installation? art?…unless you take the back roads.
Plan accordingly.
Addington, Oklahoma
photographed 11.13.2021
Hotel Scene: floodlights and rain
My side of the hotel faced the turnpike, which could account for those extremely bright floodlights, lighting the way for weary, moth-like travelers. On my last morning in Oklahoma, heavy rain on the windows diffused the light…but not very much.
Stroud, Oklahoma
photographed 10.13.2021
PS: Today would have been my dad’s 98th birthday. He and my mom lived in Stroud, Oklahoma, where this photo was taken, for a short while in the mid-1950s. I almost never plan out my photos to be posted on any particular day, so it was a just a coincidence that this one landed on his birthday. (I think that sometimes the Photography Gods are doing some behind-the-scenes work.)
One Day | One Image 