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It all falls down
Whatever used to be there is now just a pile of bricks. I know this isn’t how it works, but I had the impression that those bricks just all let go, at the same time.
St. Paul, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
PS. So, I decided to look at a map of St. Paul, Nebraska. And while I was looking at the map, I decided to take myself on a little street-view tour, where I saw this image from April 2012. See how the building’s gone, but the pile of bricks isn’t even there? Now I think maybe the bricks are slowly returning to the site and will reassemble themselves into that building….
At least there’s a place to sit
This place was a treasure of randomness. That tree growing in what used to be (before the roof fell apart) indoors. The upended sofa. The tires. The phone on the wall (which maybe has to direct connection with the phone booth, which is just across the street?). And that chair, providing both a place to sit and a measure of security with its placement in front of the door.
And, the best part? There’s even more that I couldn’t get into the shot! Perhaps a subsequent post will take care of that. You just never know…
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.31.2014
Window shopping, #1
Well, to be fair, in addition to peering through the windows of empty buildings, I also look at regular window displays.
If you can call this one “regular.”
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
A tidy town
I like the way the squares and rectangles in this building line up. But mostly, I like the use of different arches – a couple of high ones, a few lower ones. And it all combines nicely to be a very tidy building, and the citizens of Alliance, Nebraska, ought to be proud.
Other images from Alliance include the Zesto sign, some (mostly) vacant storefronts, and another tidy building.
Alliance, Nebraska
all photographed 10.23.2009
(Maybe I ought to go back to Alliance!)
August 18
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you and your writing partner time your departure from your writing retreat at Windbreak House, near Hermosa, South Dakota, in time to be in Chadron, Nebraska, for lunch. Because – again, hypothetically – you’d stopped at the Bean Broker on the way up (just for coffee, though) and had decided it would be a perfect place to have lunch on the way back home.
That would put you in the neighborhood of Alliance, Nebraska, around mid-afternoon. Hypothetically. And you decide to take a gander through downtown, because why not. Turn on the right combination of streets, and you’ll see this. Hypothetically, which I may have mentioned.
Alliance, Nebraksa
photographed 10.23.2009, while returning from a writing retreat at Windbreak House.
One Day | One Image 