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Tennessee Gateway 1989

Posted in Art, influences, landscape, Legacy, photography, roadhouses, roadside, Topography, Travel, tagged bars, documentary, driftlessworld, highways, history, landscape, nostalgia, On the Road, photography, roadhouses, roadside attractions, southern, travel on June 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Driving across Tennessee years ago, had to stop for a cold one and observe a history lesson. Image produced from a digital scan of a 35mm B&W TMax film negative recovered from materials that survived Hurricane Wilma’s flooding of Key West, FL in 2005.No post scan editing. Exact location in Tennessee has been lost. If anyone recognizes this place, I’d appreciate hearing more about it, thanks!

Tennessee Gateway, 1989

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Roadhouse, Fennimore Hilltop

Posted in ecology, landscape, Topography, Travel, Wisconsin, tagged abandoned, documentary, driftlessworld, Highway, history, landscape, On the Road, topography, travel, Wisconsin on April 26, 2014| 2 Comments »

I’ve driven past hundreds of times, in all light and weather, trying to catch what this old roadhouse is mumbling. Yesterday I thought someone, maybe a country workcrew had sprayed the grass in front with fluorescent blue paint. When I stopped later that afternoon and walked up close, the blue revealed itself to be wild violets. Like a chunk of the sky blow down at the feet of this abandoned dream. (Photo is RAW, no post-processing except resize for web and copyright txt.)