Sitting Places #28
Chloride, Arizona
2025

For all it’s simple, old-time presentation, note the satellite dish on the back end of the roof; proving I suppose that rusticity can only take you so far these days.

Sitting Places #27
Chloride, Arizona
2025

It ain’t much, but it’s home.

Busy Day on Main Street
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Save a pickup truck or passing by while we were there, the Fashion Queen and I were the only ones on Chloride’s Main Street this February morning.

Small Town Food Pantry
Chloride, Arizona
2025

This photo was taken back in January, before my “troubles” began. I’ll probably be posting some older photos (but none that have been posted before) for a while until I can get back into the swing of things photographically.

Proof of Life
Bozeman, Montana
2025
(Photo by Connie Blackwood)

Some of you may be wondering why I quit posting POTDs back in April. One obvious explanation would be that I had kicked the bucket unexpectedly. If you thought that, you were close to being right. I went to Mayo Cinic in Rochester, MN for a two day routine heart checkup. I ended up being admitted to the hospital and staying there for 179 days plus a couple weeks  as an outpatient. During that 6+ months I had three open-heart surgeries, two heart attacks and a minor stroke. The last surgery was to get a heart transplant. This photo of me was taken just a few days ago after returning home. I’ve recovered considerably since earlier in the summer when I weighed some 125 pounds or so, looking more like this:

That’s me on the left. 🙂 On the right is Lily a service dog trained to entertain patients. I still have a lot of rehab left to do but notice small improvements almost daily.

Anyway, that’s my story (the short version). I’m not sure when I’ll be in a position to start regular POTDs again, but I’m hoping to once the dust settles around here. So stay tuned.

Saddle Sore
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Ghost Town Spirits #2
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Make that spirits light, since it’s just root beer and sarsaparilla.

Ghost Town Spirits
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Ghost Town Matryoshka
Chloride, Arizona
2025

So, inside of the ghost town of Chloride, they constructed a smaller fake ghost town, and inside of that fake ghost town they constructed several smaller doll-house scale ghost town buildings. The concept of Matryoshka dolls taken to a whole new level.

Dead and Down
Chloride, Arizona
2025

For reasons that seem to defy logic, at least mine, some folks in the near-ghost town of Chloride decided some time back to construct a fake ghost town right off the main drag. In spite it’s obvious redundancy, it did provide some entertainment as well as photo ops.