A local landmark, the Snack Shack, is closing for good. I’ve taken pictures of the place in its heyday, and I’m glad I did. All that is left now are remnants. A sign with the menu printed on the side and a toilet out back.
We rode down to visit Wayside Park in Dahlgren, Virginia but the park had been subsumed into the landscape of the new Harry Nice bridge between Virginia and Southern Maryland. Next door, there is Barnes Field Park. The ball fields are being readied for spring games and there is another version of a snack shack there, too.
These pictures are not social commentary. They do not represent nostalgia or longing. Not anticipation, appreciation or even hope. In my mind, they are art.
"To make living itself an art, that is the goal."—Henry Miller