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hill-top

A long time ago, in a different career, I was sent to Victorville to help out with some stuff at the transit system there. At the time, I thought it was a Very Great Honor to have been selected for the task. But then later, when I got fired from that job, I thought maybe I’d been sent out there as punishment.

That was prior to my becoming a photographer, so I completely missed the scenic possibilities of this hilltop o’ stuff.

Good thing I got a chance to return.

Route 66 – Victorville, California
photographed 6.2.2023

best price

This was one of my favorite places on the Arizona part of Route 66: competing souvenir stores, with large (very) signage throwing shade at each other. Curiously, though, they each promised the “best price” so perhaps there was some price-fixing going on?

Route 66 – Allentown, Arizona
photographed 5.30.2023

wilkerson’s place is melting

The New Mexico sun is hot enough and bright enough – or so it seems – to melt building materials. But really, it’s the infrequent rains that are dissolving the adobe walls of Wilkerson’s place.

Route 66 – Montoya, New Mexico
photographed 5.29.2023

windowsill flowers

I didn’t see all that much to photograph in Sequoyah (sorry, Sequoyah), so I stopped at this rock building, a church, and looked that the stuff in the windows and the other stuff reflected off the glass.

Route 66 – Sequoyah, Oklahoma
photographed 10.12.2021

post 8737

This place looked rugged. The neighborhood felt sketchy. There was a cop parked in the back corner of the parking lot.

I did not stick around…

Route 66 – Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.2.2023