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The sidewalk will be clean
No matter the weather, this sidewalk is going to be kept clean. Except for the weeds growing up through the cracks. And the cracks themselves.
Lebanon, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Tornado siren
The 2010 census reports 80 residents of this town. There are approximately 20 horns on the tornado siren, which seems like ample coverage, doesn’t it?
Lebanon, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Historical Note #1: The 2012 Google Street View is siren-free, so it’s an apparently recent addition.
Historical Note #2: My spouse lived in this town for a year or two when he was a kid, and the location of the famous family story How Larry Broke His Tooth is just around the corner from where I stood to take this shot.
Utility
What caught my eye initially were the boxes on the utility pole, the banged-up downspout, and the glass blocks in the window. But then, what had been just a blotch of paint on a pole started to look like a face…
McCook, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Another one of life’s cycles
(This is probably self-explanatory.)
Kearney Cemetery
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Beauty Shop
All the ladies with their standing Saturday appointments were fixed up for the week, and the beauty shop was silent.
I am increasingly drawn toward scenes like this, without people but with ample examples of their humble presence. I love seeing leggy houseplants, wallpaper borders, those big old-fashioned hair dryers, the messy stacks of magazines – all evidence of lives being lived.
Pleasanton, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
