Kerns Motel Ellensburg Washington napoleon lajoie framed for your wall

framed for your wall

A taxonomy of belonging rendered in cloth and color — diamonds

and chrome-finned sedans angled into gravel courts

The engraving carries the salt and powder of a January night when the blockade finally closed for good

and the republic reaching

Kerns Motel Ellensburg Washington napoleon lajoie framed for your wallKerns Motel Ellensburg Washington arrives in roadside neon and Kittitas Valley light a tidy motor court strung along the highway where ranchers and rodeo crowds pulled in past sagebrush flats, the Cascades blueing the western horizon, and tail finned cars idling beneath the office sign. A waypoint of the open road preserved in a linen finish postcard from the motoring age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard