Burr Ridge, Illinois 01/28/15
Month: January 2016
it’s time
It’s Time To Train Yourself
it’s time to train yourself
to sleep alone again
and it’s so fucking hard
–Richard Brautigan
Burlington, Iowa Frozen January Riverfront
The Burlington Rail Bridge (pictured below) is a vertical-lift railroad bridge that crosses the Mississippi River between Burlington, Iowa and Gulf Port, Illinois.
The Great River Bridge crosses the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa on US Route 34 across from Gulf Port, Illinois
view from the Riverfront back at the town of Burlington..
population: turtles
Dallas City, Illinois along Route 96
sometimes rare days look just like the other ones
Carthage, Illinois
Twisted Roads
Christmas nightlights on a house in the middle of nowhere–Burlington Iowa–other christmas remnants–a Tender Trap & Snake Alley
intermission
sometimes you have to sit still, even if it’s just in your mother’s garage. sometimes you take selfies in the juggalo basement. sometimes you have to go to the dentist and take a bunch of selfies with your birthday buddy. sometimes there’s a white rabbit under the car. sometimes your brother has a cheese on his head.
i hereby resolve to get lost with much purpose #thisispoetry
finishing up the new year’s day meandering.. first three shots are back down the road from the cemetery from the previous post. then there’s my shoes wherever they are.. the final four pics along a country road somewhere in McDonough County, Illinois. Nothing like getting some miles down, first thing in the year
ok, so actually i was in the middle of spray-painting #thisispoetry on the railing when the only other person to go down this road today, went down this road.. go figure.
i heart cemeteries
This is off Illinois Route 96, also called the GREAT RIVER ROAD, following along the Mississippi River. Tull Cemetery is between Pontoosuc and Niota, Illinois. I followed one of those highway signs denoting a historic cemetery, kept seeing a lot of those, wondering what makes any cemetery “historic” or not and it was a good, chill day so I thought I would meander around to check it out.
down the country road a bit where I found the tossed xmas decorations then branching off to another less of a road, seeming more a driveway- that did lead straight to a house, barn and other buildings..branching off again right before it to an even lesser road by now just a set of tire tracks and through an open gate to this opening in the surrounding woods..
I still don’t know the answer to the historic question but it is a well-kept, peaceful place, properly feeling rooted in another time.
if you have a fear of bridges
..probably just don’t look at any of them in Illinois. Iowa too apparently. They are either under construction or should be. This is the Ft. Madison Toll Bridge also known as the Santa Fe Swing Span Bridge for the old Santa Fe rail line.. 
The Magical Jeep 