Blue Ice #1
Bozeman, Montana
2016

Zipper
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Working Overtime
Bozeman, Montana
2016

Furnished Rooms
Butte, Montana
2016

Death’s Shadow
Custer National Cemetery, Montana
2016

Rest Stop
Broadus, Montana
2016

These staircases around the outside of storage tanks (in this case an oil tank) always attract my attention when driving by. This shot is somewhat interesting, but pales in comparison to the one below that I took nine years ago. With that as my benchmark, I rarely stop to photograph them as the results have always been underwhelming by comparison. But I occasionally give it a try because you never know!

Sugar
Lovell, Wyoming
2007

Circle of Confusion
Omaha, Nebraska
2016

This is the jammed-up business end of the typewriter in the POTD from three days ago. I think the way the mechanics work is that the circular carriage of arms rotates when you press a letter on the keyboard to line that particular arm up with the paper. That’s a lot of movement between keystrokes. It seems like it would take a lot of effort to rotate the carriage by pressing a key and I can’t imagine being able to type very fast on this machine. Still, I’d probably be faster on it than I am trying to type an email on my smart phone with my thumbs.

Free Association
I-90 Rest Stop, South Dakota
2016

You know when you’re traveling you see someone who reminded you strongly of someone back home but of course it wasn’t them because, well you’re away from home? Apparently that works for inanimate objects as well, because when I saw this sink in the men’s room at a highway rest stop, I immediately thought of Wallace of Wallace and Gromit fame:

If you’re not familiar with Wallace and Gromit film shorts, they are well worth a watch. One of my favorites is The Wrong Trousers.

The Necessities
Garnett, Kansas
2016

A roof over our heads and, most importantly, we’ve got satellite TV. Actually it’s hard to fault anyone for adding satellite TV to a setting like this. What better way to transcend less than desirable surroundings than escaping into some TV world for a while. (Well, reading works for that too, but you get the point.)

Alphabet Soup
Omaha, Nebraska
2016