Rose of Sharon

Small town Americana

I got this shot today, in Riverton, Kansas. It's down in the Southwest corner of the state and is only a little over an hour from Springfield.

It's a market (of some kind) and also, as here, in good weather, an open air restaurant. I thought it looked fantastic.  I couldn't stop for breakfast so I think I'll go back on a Saturday and just take in all the shade and peacefulness and quiet. It looks like quite the spot.  To me, anyway.

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I thought it picture-perfect, figuratively and literally. Coincidentally, it really is on old Route 66, too, as the sign suggests.

Makes you want to go, doesn't it?  It does me. It looked and felt like a remnant of what some Mayberry, RFD would look and feel like.

Rainbow

Plaza, Father and Son

I thought the kid looked great, what with his New York Yankees cap and all. I couldn't resist.

West side

Summit Street

Summer

Afternoon sun

Yesterday afternoon.  This is the actual color of the sky, too. The only thing edited was the cropping of the image.

Summer Sunflowers

First orange sunflower I'd ever seen.

Summer pick

Good morning.

Summer Chimney

Sunset

Car Show

Little House on the Prairie

That was

Early Summer flower

with rain

Shop front

Weekend lunch

I went to lunch, over the weekend, at the restaurant in the

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Cafe' Sebastienne.

This was simply but nicely and even beautifully put, I thought, at the maitre d's station, at the entrance.

A terrific, light lunch. I highly recommend the grilled asparagus.

That said, I've not had anything bad there yet.

Day trip

That ol' Kintuckee home

Actually, just short of Clinton, Missouree

Sunset, final light

Sunset, shadows

Westport Road construction

Saturday night

Behold, the common telephone pole

Late-day, late Spring sun

My own Hopper

Geometry II

Road Trip III

Geometry I

Road trip II

From, surprisingly to me, outside a McDonald's restaurant in Oklahoma City.

Road trip

From a restaurant I visited in Oklahoma City this weekend. totally unedited.

White

Blue shadow

Flowering Spring

Purple Spring

Got the Blues

Natural symmetry

Neon

Purple

Spring Flowers

Spring flowers: weeds, actually

But still so simple, delicate and beautiful

Spring flowers: A Weed

Brookside, Sunset, Spring III

Brookside, Sunset, Spring II

Brookside, Spring, Sunset

Brookside Art Fair: Kostas Ulevicius

Spring II

Warm, humid, damp, fresh, clean, new, blooming Spring

Spring

Breaking out

Ready for the ice.

And sleet.

And snow.

Sun, bricks, man, nature

Church sunset