Images of 66

Oliver and Ashley joined me for dinner Sunday evening at the Rock Cafe on Route 66 in Stroud. After dinner, we got out our cameras, wandered west a bit, and made the most of the fading light.

Raindrops magnify the color of the leaves and blossoms as a golden sunset illuminates a honeysuckle vine at the east edge of Chandler.

Traveling with Ashley and Oliver is a joy, because they have the right sensibilities: They understand things like why it’s worth ignoring a bank of storm clouds to drive down an unpaved road and lie belly-down on wet grass to get a shot of a graffiti-covered highway marker that slipped into obolescence more than half a century ago, or how a pair of ordinary storage towers become art just at sunset.

Plains coreopsis and a wonky view of the Ozark Trail obelisk between Stroud and Davenport.

A storm looms over Route 66 Ventures — and a good-looking Mercury — in Davenport:

Ominous clouds make Davenport seem just a bit less welcoming.

Sunset on the outskirts of Chandler, above and below.

Clouds gather behind this church steeple as the sun sets over Route 66 in Chandler.

I’m still working up those Kansas 66 photos from Saturday. I’ll post them when I get them done. Hope your weekend was full of beauty and light.

Emily