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[asakiyume]

While the ninja girl and I were on an errand yesterday, this goat climbed up onto something in the center of its little prison and called to us with sad-sounding mews. We wished we could take it home with us.

In front of it, empty soda bottles lie collapsed around a traffic cone, on top of which are two inverted plastic cups.



Over on a ways is a discarded Christmas tree, a chair, and baby stroller, and other stuff.



It is one of B-town's more Winter Bone-like corners.

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[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

That's certainly not what I think of when I think of Western Massachusetts. We just watched Winter's Bone, and the scary part was that it was JUST like some places in the Ozarks near Byron's relatives. We had visited a sawyer who lived in a trailer on a total trash pit, who had two boys named "Boy" (or at least that's all he called them), the younger of which played on piles of refuse, and the older of which who helped him with his sawyering, which was done with a completely jerry-rigged machine.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Lots of rural Massachusetts is lovely, but every rural place I've been to--Adirondacks, northern Vermont, Massachusetts, and then down south too--has places like this, too. Maybe Massachusetts just has fewer of them? There are other places like this in town, though.

How'd you like Winter's Bone? I thought it was fantastic.

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

I thought it was really fantastic too.... and then Byron gave me the book, which I also very much enjoyed.

I have not seen places like this in rural Wisconsin and Iowa. Both of those states are very very well-kept (at least the parts I've seen) in stark contrast with rural Missouri and rural Kansas, where everything seems run-down and peeling, and there are piles of junk everywhere....