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