The faded blue door of VFW post 2446, in an alleyway in downtown Hannibal, Missouri. It was the subtlety of the color palette that drew me to this scene, along with the fading stencil on the window above and the richly textured stucco wall. There is the potential for a haiku here, or maybe a William Carlos Williams poem.
My family and I took a vacation in Hannibal last week. In between camping in a thunderstorm and touring caves and museums I managed to take a few photos while I was there. For my purposes, the best material lies just to the north of the downtown area. Built in the late 1870s, the now derelict Hannibal jail and police station building still exudes character and visual magnetism.
