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The last rotary
This may be the last rotary phone…and from the amount of dust on the cord and the top of the receiver, it hasn’t been used in a while.
(Spotted at the Dixie Dog, where if you sit at the counter for lunch, a friendly waitress named Kay will be happy to talk. And where the cook, having completed the lunch rush, said she was going outside to “smoke a piece” of her cigarette.)
Spur, Texas
photographed 3.14.2015
Girls
We found this in the fashion district in Los Angeles. This time, I was looking up, instead of around back…
Los Angeles, California
photographed 4.15.2013
Window Grids
There is a measure of dignity in the window grids of this old house, I think. And look at that paint that’s still hanging on, the beneficiary of protection from the roof overhang.
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.23.2104
Through a wood-smoke haze
To say the island is sparsely populated is an understatement. There is only one road, skirting the edge between volcanic mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The road, which isn’t always paved, doesn’t make a complete loop of the island. This scene is common.
along the road
Taveuni, Fiji
photographed 7.4.2013
Staples
The back room of the only supermarket on the island. This store, the MH Supermarket, opened in 2008, and it “replaced an old, much smaller, timber-boarded outlet.”
In addition to groceries (including, apparently, a lot of onions), the store sold furniture, household appliances, and school supplies.
Somosomo Village
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.4.2013
