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Broken Cross, Lily, South Dakota 27 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
It wasn’t all deserted homes in South Dakota. Churches had fallen into disrepair as well. And, when your neon cross fails, how far away can the End of Days be? The post Broken Cross, Lily, South Dako...
Saint by the Window, South Dakota 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
The previous occupants left a cutout of a saint by the window when they abandoned this house in rural South Dakota. Perhaps they figured he hadn’t done much good in protecting them from the economy th...
The Pros and Cons of House-sitting 26 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
[Editors' Note: While in Hawaii making arrangements for our upcoming visit to Japan, we are also in a rare (for us) state of planning. We see another stint of house-sitting on our horizon, so offer th...
Flooded Homes, Webster, South Dakota 25 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
The summer of 2011 was a bad one in Eastern South Dakota. The Missouri river spread for miles over its banks and flooded farms and towns indiscriminately…and left a lot of new lakes in its path. Inclu...
Farm Couple at the Bar, Andover, South Dakota 24 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
I know less about farming that I do about nuclear physics. That’s why I love to talk to farmers. It’s been a tough year for these two in South Dakota. Too much rain followed by no rain at all. But, th...
Bartender, Andover, South Dakota 24 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
We spent one afternoon, and a part of the evening in the bar in Andover, South Dakota and struck up some interesting conversations. My shooting friend, Nicole, and I were pretty much sticking to shots...
Couple Outside of a Bar, South Dakota 21 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
Her shirt says it all: “I’m not a virgin but I still have the box it came in.” They’d just stopped off at the bar during a “poker run” when bikers ride from town to town to various bars to pick up car...
A Week of London Theatre 19 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
Back when we were working stiffs, Kris and I still made plans to go to London every few years just to go to the theater. We both studied theater there, back in the 1970s, and it instilled a life-long ...
Insects, Gas Station, South Dakota 19 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
If you’ve ever been to the Midwest in the summer, you’re familiar with bugs–particularly mosquitoes. I wasn’t sure what sort of bugs these were that had been attracted by the high intensity lights ove...
Catholic Cemetery, Murdock, Minnesota 16 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
Along Highway 12 in the small town of Murdock, Minnesota–not that there are many large towns along Hwy 12. The size and luminance of the tableau of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery was unusual, to s...
