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End of summer
Even the sunflowers have given up, which means that once again, winter is going to win.
I hate that.
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 10.20.2019
Finish Line
Sometimes the Photography God(s) send you just where you need to be. Like this last-minute turn into a remote cemetery, which yielded a checkered flag right there among the gravestones.
St. Mary’s Cemetery
near Wood River, Nebraska
photographed 10.20.2019
Mixed Use
This place used to be a gas station or auto mechanic shop (or both). Now it looks like maybe it’s a heating/air conditioning business. But with tires.
Exeter, Nebraska
photographed 8.29.2018
Dickens (not Charles)(but named for him)
When your itinerary for the day is to “drive around and look at stuff” and you’re traveling along a two-lane road and there’s a sign that says “Dickens” and run-down building down a dirt road, there’s really only one choice, isn’t there?
The place is unincorporated, and so small that there’s no population listed. I’d put it at fewer than 10. According to our friend Wikipedia, the place was founded in the 1880s when the railroad went through. Wikipedia also notes the place was named for Charles Dickens, though it offers no supporting evidence. But let’s think about long-ago students in this school reading Bleak House…
Dickens, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
A giant white dress
Yes! Children AND adults can sew up a giant white dress, if they want.
But if that’s not your deal, look to the far wall, where you can (apparently) check out the BEST NEBRASKA WINES, which sounds weird enough that it’s probably a real thing.
Neither dresses nor wine your thing? Off to the right, then, is an accordionist/comedian you could check out. I make a mistake of sitting down in the front row after he’d started his show – I must have violated some some provision of the of Accordionist Audience Code of Ethics, which just goes to show the hidden dangers of traveling in foreign places like Nebraska – and he heckled me relentlessly. At one point, when some old dude came down to take a picture, he stopped playing, and said as he gestured to my camera, “Sir – no photos. She’s here from Jimmy Fallon and won’t let anyone else photograph me.” It was SO FUNNY. To the accordionist.
All this to say the state fair had plenty of stuff to look at.
Nebraska State Fair
Grand Island, Nebraska
photographed 8.28.2018
One Day | One Image 