Saturday scenery: an affectionately remembered past in Reno

Reno, Nevada has seen explosive growth in the last couple of decades. Once the "Biggest Little City in the World" famous mostly for its casinos, in the last two decades wholesale distribution centers, the University of Nevada at Reno (Go Wolfpack!), tech startups and bitcoin mining operations, and regional malls have sprawled out from the old center. But when, was we are doing on this campaign, you walk about in the neighborhoods where people actually live, you find carefully tended reminders of simpler times.

This replica Shell gas station (circa 1959 perhaps?) took up all of a front yard in an area where I doorknocked on Thursday.

Up the hill, a voter had parked his pioneer style covered wagon alongside his recreational vehicle.

Not far further along, an old tractor rusted into oblivion.

It's heart-lifting to observe others' keepsakes while working to get them to vote for a different US Senator.