GAS

I still have a couple of posts from the Big Bend trip but they require a lot of editing.  So here is something I shot tonight on the way to my astronomy meeting.  I have been waiting to photograph this sign for several months now.  I needed the sun to bew higher in the sky to illuminate the scene.  I thought that tonight the sun might be on the sign, but it was not.  But I think this light is fine for this subject.  This is a type of subject matter that Stan and I call "American Vernacular" which is usually used to describe a particularly American type of architecture.  Home grown, particularly American and likely to be designed and built by one person with no formal training.  So you get the idea.  This sign has been here as long as I have been on Long Island, and clearly long before that.  It is next to a farm stand, and there are actually three gas pumps near where I am standing but I have never seen anyone buy gas here.  No matter, it is a wonderful, classic gasoline station sign, don't you think?