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roadside jesus
There were two or three people out that day, wearing yellow safety vests and cleaning up litter from the roadside. If my memory is correct, that section of the highway had been adopted in memory of someone; it’s reasonable to assume the people I saw were related to the in-memory-of person.
Anyway, this wagon was partly filled with some of the larger trash they’d picked up that day.
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024
the rocks
This place right here. You should go. It is unbelievable.
Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark
Gove County, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
antique
Ness City is the kind of place where there’s a building nicknamed “The Skyscraper of the Plains.” And it’s four stories tall*.
To be fair the SOTP is a pretty fantastic building, made from stone and full of grand architectural details. There are other once-elegant buildings in town which makes me think the place was once a wealthy town.
So of course I spent most of my time in town checking out the truck with a carpet, carpet padding, and a chair. It was very nice.
Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
*Or three. It depends on which Wikipedia article you’re looking at. The SOTP also has a basement, so who even knows what’s going on with the floor-count.
it didn’t feel like a glacier
My very favorite thing in Jetmore, Kansas, (population 770) was the way the sun had baked and then cracked into pieces the sign that said “arctic glacier.”
You know how I am…
Jetmore, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
el martinez service
I’ve been this place a lot of times but never even gave it a second glance. So maybe I missed seeing when it was open, seeing what the local customers were doing.
Or maybe, it’s been closed so long that if I had noticed it before now it would have looked approximately like this.
(Reason 1 to go back over and over to the same place.)
Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024
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