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She watched, suspiciously
I was walking along West Irving Park Road, toward the Red line station on North Sheffield, when this hot dog stand caught my eye. The woman taking her pre-lunch cigarette break next door eyed me, detached herself from the wall, and took one step toward the street to better see what I saw. She soon returned her attention to her cigarette.
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 4.16.2013
Heaven on a Sunday morning
Of course you knew this: that the very instant I first saw this place, which was on a Friday night, I made plans to go back on a Sunday morning just so I could use “Heaven on a Sunday morning” as the title of a blog post.*
As it turns out, heaven isn’t too crowded on Sundays. Just a couple of guys working on repairing the brick street, a man on a bicycle who was shopping the trashcans, and me.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.7.2013
*I realize I could have actually taken this photograph any day of the week and just pretended I took it on a Sunday. But I wouldn’t do that.
This keeps the whole thing running
Way above Albuquerque, this machinery keeps the Sandia Peak Tram moving up and down the mountain. You can see another view of the structure on the Tram Cam.
I’d explain how all this works, only I don’t really know. I could ask a certain civil engineer of my acquaintance, but his explanations tend to be rather lengthy. (I once asked him, as we were leaving the house for a one-hour drive to my grandfather’s house, to explain pre- and post-stressed concrete. He was just winding up the lecture as we pulled into my grandfather’s driveway. At least it wasn’t a FIVE hour trip…..)
above Albuquerque
photographed 11.2.2012
The church by the beach
This might be St. Joseph Anglican Church. Unless it isn’t. Information seems unusually hard to find.
But anyway, I am almost positive if I had this just across the road, the time I’d be inside any kind of building would be fairly minimal.
Bathsheba, Barbados
photographed 6.24.2011
It’s just a game
I want to believe that the placement of a basketball goal next to a cemetery was the result of a priest’s attempt at illustrating some kind of theology.
Or maybe it was just where the ground was open enough and level enough for it to work.
beside Our Lady, Help of Christians Catholic Church
Frankenstein, Missouri
photographed 6.2006
