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Palm Garden
Remember this guy? He was inside the Palm Garden.
And I didn’t plan for both shots of the place to be in color, but apparently the photos were both fairly insistent on the matter.
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Two stairways, and a balcony
On a short trip at the end of the summer, we drove through McCook, Nebraska, where I found a very interesting alley (which you’ve already seen here). To be honest, I don’t know what the street side of this place looked like, but it’s hard to imagine that it’s any better than this, with the sign, the stairs, the balcony, the satellite dishes, the house plants, and that extra tire.
McCook, Nebraska
photographed 8.31.2014
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
Guardians
I tried to figure out who St. Libory was. It seemed easy enough: the town and the church were both named for him/her. It turned out to be a bit more of a challenge than I’d anticipated, however, and the closest I could come up with was St. Liborius.
This led me to the information that St. Liborius is invoked against calculi. And that made me think I might have benefitted from St. L. during some of my higher-level math classes in college. But then I figured out that actually referred to gallstones or kidney stones or similar afflictions. And then that made me notice, again, that Jesus’s stone hand has gone missing. Which set me to wondering if “stone hand” could be considered a calculus.
And, as it turns out, all of that nonsense distracted me from the point I intended to make all along, which was that I appreciated that way the headstone and two statutes seemed to be guarding the crucifix.
St. Libory Cemetery
St. Libory, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
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