Today’s post shares a slice of humor and nostalgia. Jeffrey Aaronson photographed this series along a rural highway in northern Colorado for Life magazine, stirring memories of the Old West and the cowboy tradition.
All photos ©Jeffrey Aaronson The Art of an Improbable Life 2012
PS: Sharing one of my favorite series of photographs seems like the perfect way to celebrate my 100th post today!
Woo hoo! Congrats, Becky! Great photos ~
Thanks, Nancy. Hope your summer is going well and you are enjoying lots of interesting adventures.
Becky congrats on reaching such a milestone. I am on verge of it. So I can realize what does it mean to you. You are a wonderful writer, more than anything else you are a wonderful human being. Just be the way you are. I wish you will complete your 1000th posts soon.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures with us. I hope you remember about that guest post by Jeffrey. I am still waiting for that one.
Arindam, you always have the kindest words to say. Thank you. I have not forgotten about asking Jeffrey to do a guest post. He is immersed in his current art project right now, which is taking serious focus, so we’ll have to be patient a while longer.
Congratulations on your milestone. I love finding those sign series along the highway.
Thanks, Julie. I love you reading all your blog posts from France!
Yes, perfect! Loved all of the photos but especially the sentiment. Sometimes I think the same thing. Congrats on the 100th, goes by fast doesn’t it?
Thanks, Brenda. Glad you appreciated this quirky series. And yes, 100 does go by fast!
Congrats on your 100th blog post!
Catchy post.
Thanks!
I’m hearing the theme song to the TV show as I respond . . . Congratulations on a milestone noted with the most delightfully visual of markers.
Ha ha. “Hi-yo, Silver! Away!” (cue the William Tell Overture).
Love it.
Oh Becky, what fun photos and great scenery!! Love it!
Glad you enjoyed them, Ann.
Great post and I’m glad to have found your blog. I love wide open spaces — it breeds wide open hearts.
Thanks, Megan. And I’m glad I found your blog too. I just subscribed. Well said about wide open spaces!
Lovely–expansive, sad and hopeful at the same time.
I think this series captures the spirit of the West perfectly with its nostalgia, ruggedness, and humor. Thanks for swinging by to leave your comment!
Hey Becky,
Still coming down from the writers conference. On my one way ticket to Rhode Island many years ago, my wife and I drove our van, plus a trailer full of crap, across America. We took the northern route that cut through S. Dakota, Yellowstone and all the empty space in between small towns. If you found ten thousand people it was a metropolis. A different life. Those pictures are from a different time, a time we were lucky enough to enjoy.
Brian
Brian, so glad you enjoyed the SB writers conference. I hope to go next year.
I loved your story about your road trip though the U.S. There’s nothing like small towns and wide open spaces to give you perspective. Thanks for sharing your memories.
I lived in Wyoming for a long time (moved there from Chicago when I was 15) then I went to college in Providence, RI. I thought I wanted to leave Wyoming and all that nothingness. Turns out, nothingness is pretty darn powerful. Wyoming gets in your heart and you are never the same. Even though I don’t live in Wyoming anymore, I still long for it and experience phantom pain, as if my heart as been amputated, or at least that part that beat wild in the wind of Wyoming. It truly is like no place on earth. I played soccer at PC and my nickname was “Cheyenne Meg” on the soccer field. People at my college were amazed they had even met someone from Wyoming. They actually thought I rode a horse to school. I had a girl from Long Island believing it for half a semester.
Nothingness is extremely powerful. We lived in Colorado for two decades and while I love where we’re living now, it will always be part of our hearts.
That is hilarious people at your college thought Cheyenne Meg rode her horse to school! I like your humor. Giddyup, my friend!
Wow, beautiful photos. Such wide open spaces just seem so freeing. Thank you for sharing!
There’s no bluer sky than Colorado and no wider spaces than the West. It definitely offers extraordinary breathing room.
I’m biased but Wyoming has the bluest skies!
Ha ha. Sounds like I need to get myself to Wyoming! It’s one place I have not been to yet.
Yeeee-haw ! I love it ! Congratulations on the anniversary of your 100th post Becky!
Myriam Holland
Thanks, Myriam. I appreciate your cheery support. I’m glad you got a kick out of the images. There’s nothing quite like the West!
Congratulations! And thanks for the big skies, open spaces and making me relax and grin.
Thanks, Rossandra. I’m happy to share the wide open spaces of Colorado and the humor of the Old West. I think we could all use a dose of this charming simplicity.
Wow. 100! That’s such a milestone. I have so much catching up to do….
Congratulations on all of your blogging success, Becky. An Improbable Life is one of my absolute favorites!
Thanks, Jessica. Somehow 100 just seemed to magically arrive. It has been a fun adventure connecting with so many wonderful and interesting people. Thanks for all your support all along the way!
I love the photos! Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome. It makes me happy to share these images of America with you.
I love it!
Glad it made you smile.