By the Side of the Road: Things Seen and Noted

These are pictures of things I've seen on southern roadsides as I drive from one place to another.  Since I'm usually going fairly fast when I first encounter them, they initially seem like visions -- fleeting and  insubstantial.  Only when I turn around and go back do they (some of them at least) become real to me.  Sometimes whatever I saw that made me come back doesn't turn out to be particularly interesting, but I often find something else there to photograph, simply through the very act of turning around, stopping, and getting out of the car.
 

 

Abandoned Cotton Gin, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 2010

 Old Train Depot, Dundee, Mississippi, 2010


 
Football Mural with Satellite Dish, Sledge, Mississippi, 2010

 

Metal-Patched Building, Morven, Georgia, 2009

 

Mammy's Cupboard, Natchez, Mississippi, 2009

 C. H. Harris Store, Cherokee, Alabama, 2009

 

Virtuous Woman Fitness & Tanning, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 2009

Prefab Shed, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 2009

Windblown Tarps, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, 2009

Bail Bonds, New Albany, Mississippi, 2009

Abandoned Chair, Marshall County, Mississippi, 2008

  Facade, near Blairsville, Georgia, 2008

Rice Treatment Plant, Waverly, Louisiana, 2007

Cotton Gin, Como, Mississippi, 2004

Gentle Store, Limrock, Alabama, 2003

Kudzu-Covered Shed, Lafayette County, Mississippi, 2002

Shed and Prefab Building, Holmes County, Mississippi, 2002

Semi-Circular Metal Building, Coldwater, Mississippi, 2002

Cotton Gin, Money, Mississippi, 2001

Shingled Building, near Abbeville, Mississippi, 2001

Nail Biz, near New Roads, Louisiana, 2000

Mississippi Industrial College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, 2000