counting down the days V

A tantalizing and mischievous selection of photos found in the LIFE archive.
The set's only description being its title:
Kansas City Crime, May 5th, George Skadding
It must have been an interesting summer...

counting down the days IV

The last days of summer.
Found these in the LIFE archive.
The Kansas City All Girl Hotrod Club--Francis Miller

 

 

counting the days II

Summer countdown cont.
II days until I'm back to the haze of a Kansas summer.

Robert Kinmont

counting the days

It's August and summer is drying up. Here starts the countdown.
III days until I begin the end of summer in the haze of a Kansas heat wave.

Robert Adams

All works from Summer Nights, Walking: On the Colorado Front, 1976-82

my first science fiction novel doesn't seem to be fiction at all

"Who could say where town or wilderness began? Who could say which owned what and what owned which? There was always and forever that indefinable place where the two struggled and one of them won for a season to possess a certain avenue, a dell, a glen, a tree, a bush. The thin lapping of the great continental sea of grass and flower, starting far out in lonely farm country, moved inward with the thrust of seasons. Each night the wilderness, the meadows, the far country flowed down-creek through the ravine and welled up in town with a smell of grass and water, and the town was disinhabited and dead and gone back to earth. And each morning a little more ravine edged up into town, threatening to swamp garages like leaking rowboats, devour ancient cars which had been left to the flaking mercies of rain and therefore rust...."

Marjorie on The Farm circa 2009

"...The ravine was indeed the place where you came to look at the two things of life, the ways of man and the ways of the natural world. The town was, after all, only a large ship filled with constantly moving survivors, bailing out the grass, chipping away the rust. Now and again a lifeboat, a shanty, kin to the mother ship, lost out to the quiet storm of seasons, sank down in silent waves of termite and ant into the swallowing ravine to feel the flicker of grasshoppers rattling like dry paper in hot weeds, become soundproofed with spider dust and finally, in an avalanche of shingle and tar, collapse like kindling shrines into a bonfire, which thunderstorms ignited with blue lightning, while flash-photographing the triumph of the wilderness."
-Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine

More from The Farm (2009) HERE.

too many places at once.

Taken this fall in Canada during a curatorial stay at the Banff Centre.

ike

This is the most powerful image in my thrift shop collection of abandoned images. I remember snatching it so fast from a stack of images in a Kansas City flea market booth that I nearly ripped it. Sometimes I like to convince myself the hunchy man on the left with the camera or binoculars on his arm is Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Hope. 

olds.

 

It's been a long time so, I thought I would post something.
Found in my grandfather's photograph box.
The river over flows.

darn.

Thank you Coen brothers and your Man Who Wasn't There for making me long for long nights sitting on a porch even more than I already was....

Oh yeah, and you were beautiful...

gems in my collection.

That past 2 days have been my first few official days of grad. school. 

The whole experience is surreal. 

some in betweens.

In between the shots.