Fall, 1995Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
-REAKWATER
1986 On this night the streets were all but abandoned, just one or two cats lurking in the shadows. It seemed the end of an era; the wrecking-ball was in and the Art Deco was out, the buildings more telling of the past than the present. Many had already disappeared, and at the rate the demolition was going the BREAKWATER wouldn't last till morning.
In the quiet of midnight you could hear the neon... lighting the last mile for ships sailing in from the horizon. Then fate intervened, and South Beach was saved.
In the quiet of midnight you could hear the neon... lighting the last mile for ships sailing in from the horizon. Then fate intervened, and South Beach was saved.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Small-Mart
Canal Point, FL - May, 2008Watches, bandannas, aspirin, a chance to win a bass boat. Milk, bread, eggs, fantasies of scratch-off and lotto. Candy, ice cream, beer and soda. This is "Downtown," literally - just a few hundred feet from Lake Okeechobee.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Fields Of Oil
Palm Beach County, Florida - May, 2008In case you don't recognize the green stuff, it's corn - man's latest "gas station." I stopped by for a fill-up. Behind the camera, two crows were holding onto the top of a fence-post laughing their feathers off. Crows are endlessly amused by man's odd behavior, especially when this man proceeded to shove two dozen corn-ears down into my gas tank. They were hysterical.
They flew off to tell their friends. When the tow-truck finally arrived, crows were everywhere.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
On The Road
May, 2008: Entering the farming district, a vast area in central/western Palm Beach County which begins about twenty miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. This road, old Route #98, leads directly to Canal Point located on the south-eastern tip of Lake Okeechobee. In years gone by, before there were connecting roads, the canal served as the "highway" to and from Canal Point, including the early farms and settlements along the way. And like the turnpikes of today, boaters had to pay a toll to travel the waterway. Wildweed
May, 2008: Looking north/west from Kanner Highway (Rt. 76), Port Mayaca, FL, three miles west of Lake Okeechobee. Just beyond the treeline, the St. Lucie Canal, which connects the lake to the Atlantic Ocean. Otherwise, a rural area more reminiscent of nature than settlement.
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