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Playground
I feel like maybe this playground and this other one are cousins.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
Scenic, officially
Sort of makes you wonder, doesn’t it, if the person in charge of sign placement really intended for this abandoned gas station to be the backdrop for a sign proclaiming the town as Officially Scenic.
Or, maybe “scenic” refers to the marker itself, rather than the town…
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
There was some more weather
This was taken about 40 minutes after this storm photograph, and is of a completely different storm. It was a good evening to be looking at the weather: there was a lot of it to see.
Oklahoma Panhandle
photographed 8.28.2014
Look. And compare.
If you look and compare, you’ll see how very nice the remains of this sign are: there are three full panels on the left side and three empty panels on the right.
This little town is split by the Texas-Oklahoma border. Kids in kindergarten through fourth grade go to school in Texas, and from fifth grade through twelve, go to school in Oklahoma. (As a native Texan, I am not too sure about letting Oklahoma get more years to educate the kids than Texas has. We can all just hope for the best.)
Texhoma, Oklahoma
photographed 9.1.2014
The ladies’
My favorite thing is the lettering on the door; I especially like the lilting curve of the word “ladies” and the intertwined Os in “room.” It’s a little hard to imagine that the owner of this place (a service station when it was new), ordered up something fancy for the door, but maybe that is what happened. After all, it is right around the corner from the town’s museum district.
For the record, St. Paul is the first town on the road trip where we heard loudspeakers broadcasting local radio stations. We thought it was for some kind of special event (was there going to be a parade?) but then we heard the same thing in several other towns.
St. Paul, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
