A Little Rain Big Wood River, Idaho 2014

A little rain can make for some nice photo opportunities such as this one that I took near my campsite on the Big Wood River in Idaho where I was staying while exhibiting at the Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival last weekend. A little rain doesn’t really affect attendance at an art show much. A lot of rain and the crowds thin out considerably. Add in hail and lightning and they pretty much disappear altogether. For safety reasons, the lightning actually caused the organizers to close the show for the afternoon last Friday. The water was so deep on the art show grounds and in the gutters on the walk back to my car that I had to wade over my ankles so my shoes and socks got soaked. It was the only pair of shoes I brought so I walked around in squishy shoes until they dried out the next day.

Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival, 2014

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Reinke Grain Ashton, Idaho 2014

On my drive to the art show in Jackson, Wyoming last month I revisited the grain elevators in Ashton, Idaho. I first photographed this elevator six or eight years ago. A close of image of the wooden part of the elevator appears in my Elevations collection. (It’s the second image in the collection, here.)]]>

Lives Real and Imagined #34 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

It may seem kind of odd for this image to remind me of the old civil war song Tenting Tonight on the Old Campground, but it does.

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Old Dinosaurs Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

The company town of Sinclair housing a big refinery is six miles from Rawlins, so there is no wonder Sinclair stations and memorabilia have a major presence in the area. When I was a kid growing up in Kansas, there were no local Sinclair stations so we only saw them when traveling out west on vacation. I remember them distinctly because one summer they were giving away small toy dinosaurs of different species with each fill-up. Being enamored with dinosaurs (and free toys in general) as are most kids, once we figured out that they were being given away, our parents would hear about it if they even considered stopping for a different brand of gasoline. Like me, this particular gas pump is a dinosaur of sorts itself. When was the last time you pulled into a gas station where the prices on the pumps could only be set as high as 99.9 cents per gallon? (Or perhaps the question should be have you every pumped gas from such a pump.)]]>

Patriot’s Dream #41 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

An American flag oddly placed behind a building where the dumpsters and junk are stored; on the building across the alley one of the signs reads “Wyoming Department of Corrections Probation and Parole.”]]>

Oil Patch Vernacular #6 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

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Oil Patch Vernacular #5 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

No mincing words here, it’s a bar. Don’t need to know anything else.

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Oil Patch Vernacular #4 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

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Oil Patch Vernacular #3 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

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Oil Patch Vernacular #2 Rawlins, Wyoming 2014

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