Column

This concrete pretty column can be found on East Parkway in Memphis. The house in front of which it stands is pretty too. But the column is lost when viewed in front of it.

Mississippi Highway 61

About 40 miles North of Clarksdale, Mississippi and 50 miles South of Memphis, Tennessee (very rough estimate). A remnant of a business and a time long since gone. The highway is now four lanes with a wide grassy median between the two directions. But you have to think that sixty or more years ago when this was built, it was sort of an oasis in the middle of nowhere on a two lane highway. There are a few small Mississippi communities in the area, but I have to think the point of it was to be right there on the highway for motorists. It would have been a time before air conditioned cars and cell phones, when the highway was the closest thing to what we think of as an interstate.

Now this space is just a blink at 65 miles an hour. Trees growing where once people worked on cars or stocked shelves. (To me it looks like a gas station, but I guess it could have been anything).

Saltillo, TN

A small town in Tennessee.