Formerly a Church, Now a Body Shop
Vinemont AL, 2020.
Ach Ja with Rocket
Just spending October at Biergarten at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville listening to German music & having German food under a rocket…
Bicycle Mixtape: Bicycle Yards and Others
Just thinking of this bicycle yard in Chattanooga — this pic is from 2010 and it’s still partially up this year
This one we found in northern Israel:
The now-shuttered HeroBike project in Greensboro, Alabama — bikes made with bamboo:
A Jimmy Lee Sudduth “Bicycle Man” at the Telfair Museums Jepson Center in Savannah from a 2023 visit
New Orleans, 2016
Bike and path, Seaside FL 2017
Two-seater bike at an antique shop in Falkville AL (this was much harder for two of us than it looked somehow)
Bicycle on the Square in Oxford, Mississippi
Schwinn in window display, Abbeville AL
Walter Anderson’s bicycle on display at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, from a 2023 visit. There’s a book of Anderson’s bicycle travel logs with artwork available
Rose gold bike at Kodomo in Boston from a 2017 visit
and another at Sault New England in Boston
at the Aria Hotel, from 2017
Cathedral of Junk in Austin, 2017
At Isaiah Zagar’s Philadelphia Magic Gardens, from a visit in 2023
in Cullman, Alabama
Howard Finster, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, from a 2017 visit
Carpenter Gothic Barn
USA 4×4
You Say Tomato, I Say…’Mater
PSA that we’re running out of tomato days so I’ve made what may be the last tomato pie of the season here and I’m thinking of all things ‘mater before it’s time to give them up til next season unless they’re canned or greenhouse. Here’s a mixtape:
Jesus and Tomatoes Coming Soon! in a window in Hattiesburg MS, 2015
These tomato & pesto tarts are excellent and just right for lunch. Same for these ultra-similar tomato and mozarella shells, pictured above.
Arrow sign, Hartselle AL:
Aspic at The Colonnade in Atlanta:
Farm stand offerings, Cullman AL:
A fried green tomato and pimento cheese biscuit at The Loveless Cafe by the Trace:
Goshamighty the tomatoes at Potchke in Knoxville:
Tomato field on Straight Mountain in Oneonta, Alabama:
Fried green tomatoes at Arnold’s Country Kitchen (which…they’re back) in Nashville:
In Geneva, Georgia:
Mural at the entrance to Bad Idea in Nashville:
The Tomato Place, Vicksburg:
Eli’s Mater Shack in Ashville AL:
Godzilla Meets Fried Green Tomatoes at Jacques-Imo’s, New Orleans
Vicksburg tomato sandwiches from The BB Club:
FGTs at The Bright Star in Bessemer:
Masaka Onodera‘s A Box of Genetically Modified Tomatoes at the Mobile Museum of Art:
Aspic at Walnut Hills in Vicksburg:
Arrow sign in Trussville AL:
FGTs at Mrs B’s in Montgomery:
Chandler Mountain tomatoes:
On the Vine by Mike Handley:
FGTs at Walton’s in Huntsville:
The braconid wasp eggs on this hornworm who’d rather be enjoying a tomato plant (note chickens watching) in the yard
Pimiento and Tomato Salad:
Tomato aspic I made:
Tomato Table by Craig Nutt, at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia:




























































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