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Week of Randomness: Detail, cemetery
My mother-in-law is buried in this cemetery; it’s 600 miles from where we live, so our visits there are infrequent.
The last time we were there, it was early in the morning, and there was an old lady walking up the middle of the little cemetery road. From a distance – and even as she got closer – she looked exactly like my late mother-in-law. It was an odd feeling to watch her slow approach.
She spoke to us as she passed. Ghosts don’t talk, do they?
Anyway, this is a detail of tomb that’s in her cemetery neighborhood.
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Preserver
This Navy ship was in port the entire time I was in New Orleans for a conference. On my very last night in town, right after I made this shot, I found out the name of the ship – the Kearsarge. THEN, when I looked it up, I found out that there have been several previous Kearsarges, including one whose name was changed to the Hornet. My father-in-law served aboard the Hornet in the 1950s.
And, so it seemed like everything came full circle, right there beside the Mississippi River.
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.23.2018
Wizard of Magazine Street
Some important things here:
- In New Orleans, sno-cones are called sno-balls.
- This was taken on the corner of Constantinople Street and Magazine Street. Anyone who’s read A Confederacy of Dunces (which I hope is most of you)(seriously)(get a copy today) will recognize Constantinople Street as the home of Ignatius J. Reilly.
- How cool is it that there are two Zs in the title of this post?
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.21.2018
All the rectangles in town, probably
It’s not like a secret or anything: I sure do love some rectangles.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.29.2018
In the window
I drive past this former restaurant almost every morning on my way to work, and keep thinking I ought to stop and make a few photos. Late last month, a weird thing happened and I needed to go to the office on a Sunday, and for some reason I remembered to take the camera.
I worked for a few hours, and then as a reward to myself for my effort, my camera and I stopped at that place I’d been eyeing. And this is what I saw…
Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.29.2018
