In the yard of an old motel, relics speak to bygone farm life.
For decades, vintage tractors have been turned into lawn decorations. As a kid, you had no idea what they were; vehicles, certainly, with wheels and a chassis, but without the tires or body, they take on a surreal form. Today, you instantly alight at this kind of rural ephemera—rusting milk pales, decaying barns, and blackened hoes and rakes leaning against walls. Once, they were vital to a farmer’s wellbeing. Today, they’re the stuff of watercolor paintings.
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