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August 18
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you and your writing partner time your departure from your writing retreat at Windbreak House, near Hermosa, South Dakota, in time to be in Chadron, Nebraska, for lunch. Because – again, hypothetically – you’d stopped at the Bean Broker on the way up (just for coffee, though) and had decided it would be a perfect place to have lunch on the way back home.
That would put you in the neighborhood of Alliance, Nebraska, around mid-afternoon. Hypothetically. And you decide to take a gander through downtown, because why not. Turn on the right combination of streets, and you’ll see this. Hypothetically, which I may have mentioned.
Alliance, Nebraksa
photographed 10.23.2009, while returning from a writing retreat at Windbreak House.
August 17
At the Jake Jackson Memorial Museum, I was sort of captivated by this crocheted doily, largely because I am not a fan of symmetry, and this is marvelously asymmetrical. Kudos to the crocheter!
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
August 16
You didn’t really think I’d go on a trip and not come back with a photograph of a church, did you?
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Petrolia, California
photographed 7.30.2012
August 15
The groundskeeper was chatty, happy to have live people to talk to. He told us which graves marked members of the Oddfellows, where the town’s founder was buried, where the Masonic section was (“from here to that oak tree”), that he has a book on symbols of Victorian grave markers, that the doe we saw has had twin fawns three years in a row, and that sometimes the deer steal the plastic flowers on the graves.
detail, gravemarker
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
August 14
This cemetery is located on 5 acres of land that was purchased in 1876 for $155; the land was too steep for farming. The first burial here was in 1877. Prior to that, burials were either in the Oddfellows Cemetery or on private land. After this cemetery was opened, the folks buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery were relocated. I assume they didn’t mind.
Ferndale Cemetery
Ferndale, California
photographed 7.30.12
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