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vegetables in the home
Sunday mornings around the square are pretty quiet. I assumed that most of the townspeople were home making sure their gardens were well-kept, as directed by the sign on the planter.
(Note: none of the plants in that planter were vegetables. In case you were wondering.)
Carlinville, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
from a distance it looked fine: a metaphor
If you are driving through Carlinville, there’s a very good chance you’ll spot the 1860’s-era Macoupin County courthouse. It’s tall. It has a dome. It’s beautiful.
Or rather, it’s beautiful, as long as you don’t look at it closely. A close look reveals that things are worrisome over at the courthouse. The stone balusters are breaking apart, falling to pieces. There’s one place where the stairs have collapsed. Other places, pieces of the stone have just let go of the building. The longer you look, the more damage you see and the worse shape you understand the building is in.
It seemed like a metaphor for, well, a lot of things.
Carlinville, Illinois
photographed 7.2.2022
fancy curtains
The Pink Elephant Antique mall is located in what used to be a high school; I didn’t go inside the mall but I did walk around it to see what was hiding from general view. And that’s how I spotted this door with some fancy lace curtains on it.
I don’t generally self-identify as being a person who’s dismayed by disorder, but will tell you right now that the lace going in different directions on those doors makes me feel very anxious. What kind of monster DOES that?
Livingston, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
There was just something I liked about this array of mailboxes. I liked the arch of the now-bricked basement window, I liked that big mailbox off by itself, I liked the escaping mail in box E, and I like the jaunty angle of box D.
Mt. Olive, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
all the saints are here
As I mentioned yesterday, I found the statue store right there on the main street of Benld, Illinois. Even though I have all the religious statues that I need*, I wish the place had been open: I would have liked to see this array of saints up close.
Benld, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
*Zero. I have zero religious statues. And that’s exactly how many I need.
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