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Her blank stare
This cemetery madonna was weather-worn – in fact most of her face was sort of…not there. But she still stood there, doing her job.
Prairie Center Road
near Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.27. 2018
Fall was in the air
You know how on the last hot days of summer, you can convince yourself that, even with the heat, there’s a coolness lurking in the air? It felt like that, and looking an an empty swimming pool accompanied by the sounds of kids at the nearby school playground made it seem even more fall-like.
Until a few minutes later when it was just straight up a really hot and humid day…
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.27. 2018
A rakish angle
Someone left the cemetery rake leaning against a tree, and the afternoon sun cast a nice shadow on the tree, at a (dare I say it?!) rakish angle.
Lebanon, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
Ghost Slide
The difference between this abandoned school and all the other ones I’ve shot is that the Patient Spouse attended two years of elementary school here, which made the desolation a little more depressing.
But those two slides, barely holding their own against the onslaughts of time and weeds, turn a sad place into a creepy one…
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
Last winter’s hat
If you go to Maywood, Nebraska, and look through the door of the community hall, you can see a chair, a baseball uniform, a display case full of trophies, a basketball court. And you’ll also see last winter’s hat, hanging upside down and waiting for cold weather to return.
Maywood, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
