Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
-- The Eagles, "Desperado", Desperado
I was sifting through some old files on my hard drive and turned up this scan of a photo I took over 12 years ago. Given the weather we've had of late, and the emotional state I have been in, I thought it might be worth sharing.
A pair of locomotives had detached from an eastbound train to pick up some cars on a spur. The building in the background once belonged to the Oliver Chilled Plow Works. Just past the signal bridge in the background was a building that once was used by Studebaker, but it cannot be seen in the lake effect snow.
To me this photo is a hauntingly frigid scene of determination in the face of isolation.
You can click the image to get a higher resolution version.
