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Hardware, groceries, and grain – and…
…a sidewalk sofa.
The “cross at your own risk” sign is a little worrisome, don’t you think? What in world is going on at the store that would warrant such a sign?
Maybe in when the place opened (1925, if the other sign is to be believed) the combination of hardware, groceries, and grain was a real novelty, and folks came in from all over the county*, just to look around. The traffic would have overwhelmed the street, and pedestrians would take their lives in their hands to cross over to look at such an innovative mercantile.
Blackwell, Texas
photographed 5.20.2011
*Counties, actually, as it turns out. This tiny town is located in Nolan and Coke counties. That would automatically DOUBLE the numbers of folks who’d want to come check out the store. Theoretically.
Vacuum cleaners, or yard art?
Let’s say you’re in Denver on a long weekend, to catch a couple of concerts at Red Rocks (Alison Krauss and Robert Plant* one night, Mark Knopfler a couple of nights later). Let’s say that after you arrive at Denver International Airport, which seems to be conveniently located in western Kansas, you drive into the city for lunch. And let’s say, as you drive along, you see vacuum cleaners lined up in a front yard. Let’s say you keep that startling information to yourself, because…well, just because. And then let’s say that after lunch, you navigate your spouse back to that street so you can take a few photos. (Your spouse drops you off at the end of the block, and stays in the car.)
Then, let’s say that somehow, eventually, what you saw in that front yard begins to make sense….**
Denver, Colorado
photographed 6.20.2008
*Neither time nor Jumbotrons have been kind to Robert Plant. But the show was excellent.
**That part, the part about making sense? It hasn’t actually happened yet.
White on white, 14
It is very bright inside the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Even the sky cooperated (it had snowed the night before) and was a hazy white. This terminal is relatively new, and I like the 1960s vibe from the light fixtures.
Detroit, Michigan
photographed 4.20.2013
Easy chair
It’s been too long since I posted a chair photo.
This is my attempt to make up for that oversight.
Sterling City, Texas
photographed 5.20.2011
Howling
“but the wind yes the wind keeps howling”
-from “Shake” by The Head and the Heart
Out here on the plains, the wind blows nearly every day, and usually from the south or southwest. Anyone who’s been around here long enough could look at this picture and just know that the photo was taken looking to the west. How? Because the tree, the remains of the house, and the other tree all lean to the right, having spent their lives being pushed that way by the every-present southerly wind.
So now you know.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 10.16.2010
