rural – Tacky Raccoons

Noah’s Camper

Looks like there’s a small concrete mixer in the back, too.
[From Reddit, via Bustednuckles.]

On the Road with Steve

Dinosaur Service, Gas Station, Highway 40, Jensen, Utah, 1971

The Big Chief Motel, Highway 80, Gila Bend, Arizona, 1973

Regal Reptile Ranch, Snakepit Operator, Highway 66, Sayre, Oklahoma, 1972

Wigwam Motel, Highway 66, Holbrook, Arizona, 1973

Motel Dinosaur, Highway 40, Vernal, Utah, 1974

“So this made him wonder which was stronger – his father’s Buick or his grandmother’s God.”

[Photos by Steve Fitch.]

Basic Needs

If y’all come visit, y’all damn well better come a-callin’.

[Image found here.]

Christmas Eve

Abandoned railway station in Leary, Georgia. Carla Parris, photographer.

[Image found here.]

Update: Here it is on Google Maps Street View if you’re curious.

Wilder Mann – Pagan Christmastime monsters

“In 2010 the French photographer began traveling to rural farming villages in over a dozen European countries to document people, pictured mostly alone, out in the wilderness, wearing homemade costumes used in celebratory events marking the solstices, the harvest and coming of winter—calendar dates that, after millennia and the ‘civilizing’ of Pagan populations, eventually mutated into Christmas and Easter. The costumes referencing human/animal hybrids are cobbled-together, yet visually astounding.”

Traditional European Christmastime monsters photographed by Charles Fréger. Other images found here, caption from here.