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it didn’t feel like a glacier
My very favorite thing in Jetmore, Kansas, (population 770) was the way the sun had baked and then cracked into pieces the sign that said “arctic glacier.”
You know how I am…
Jetmore, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
frigid creme
We’d planned on having lunch in this little town in Kansas but were nearly through town before we saw anything that looked like lunch. Just as we were about to give up all hope we spotted a little hamburger stand called the Frigid Creme, right there on the corner of East Long Street and North Wichita Avenue. A smartly-executed high-speed turn and there we were – ready for an old-school burger!
The place is called the Frigid Creme, which is the model name of the particular burger-restaurant kit that the original owners purchased in the 1960s. I’d tell you more about that, but my Google search took me to a company that makes “premium embalming cosmetics” (also known as “mortuary makeup”) and now I’m traumatized.
Dighton, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
also sort of a shrine
Yesterday’s photo was from a shrine, and so is this one, though it presents in a different fashion than a church-on-a-hill does.
These rocks – made up of fossil-rich Niobrara chalk – rise from the Kansas plains in a way that seems unreal, yet also inevitable. No one goes there unless they mean to: it’s a long-ish drive on unpaved roads (which are unpassable if it’s rained), but of course that’s part my attraction to going there.
But, as luck with stuff like this goes, a van-load of noisy people drove up, parked exactly between me and my camera, and blocked* my view. Ack. So rude. I was about done anyway but still: a little awareness of surroundings and a dab of respect means something.
Monument Rocks Natural Landmark
Oakley, Kansas
photographed 9.5.24
*Another word to use would be “ruined.”
transform
There are approximately a billion photos of the sign in front of this building, which is precisely why I didn’t show it to you: I bet you’ve already seen it. And if not, just Google it.
And anyway, there was no way I was passing up the opportunity to get a shot of this flag-intensive place.
(From The Other Side, a collaborative Route 66 photography project, with VC Torneden.)
As a reminder, you can see more of this project on Facebook, Instagram, and on our website.
And The Other Side will be on exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa through April 20.
along Route 66
Amboy, California
photographed 6.1.2023
middle america
Yay for Texas! It doesn’t get much Route 66 mileage (186, the second lowest of the eight states on the route) but at least it got the midpoint.
(Kansas – poor Kansas – only gets 13 miles.)
(From The Other Side, a collaborative Route 66 photography project, with VC Torneden.)
As a reminder, you can see more of this project on Facebook, Instagram, and on our website.
And The Other Side will be on exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa through April 20.
along Route 66
Adrian, Texas
photographed 7.30.2022
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