Sitting Places #35
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Sitting Places #34
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Sitting Places #33
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Sitting Places #32
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Wishing for Paddidle
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Sticking two 120 volt floodlights into a vehicle’s headlight sockets isn’t likely to get you home in the dark. That would leave you wishing for at least one headlight that is functional (i.e. padiddle). Although he never mentions the concept by name, Jakob Dylan (Bob’s son) wrote a song using padiddle metaphorically.

It’s the Same, Only Different
Nelson, Nevada
2025

When I saw this shed and it’s contents in Nelson, I immediately thought of one of my earliest photos taken on my grandparents’ farm back in the late 60s:

Tool Shed
Lyndon, Kansas
~1969

In retrospect, the two photos aren’t all that similar. Similar lighting (sort of) and similar jumble of items, but I know for sure my grandparent’s had no cannons. So it’s one of the same only different kind of comparisons.

Padiddle
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Surely people of a certain age (e.g. 70+) will remember the game Padiddle.

Sitting Places #31
Nelson, Nevada
2025

How Cowboys Deal With Change
Nelson, Nevada
2025

Contrary to what shows like Yellowstone might imply, most cowboying is not done from the back of a horse these days. That must create a bit of an identity crisis for those leftover from the older days of the cowboy life. This, perhaps, is one way of slowly transistioning to change.

School or Bussed
Nelson, Nevada
2025

I guess it used to take some major equipment to get kids to school in the remote areas of the Mojave Desert.