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Hell's Belles, in red, at the Windy City Rollers season opener on January 31st at the UIC Pavillion.
The Hell Is Real sign stands in a cornfield clear on the other side of Indiana from this point along Interstate 70, but that doesn't make it any less self-evident. So here we are, back in the Hoosier State, headed for Indianapolis and Chicago beyond. This giant cross greeted us, just as it has for at least a decade now. This is probably the most representative Hoosier welcome there is.
I thought I'd posted a picture of this cross before, but evidently I haven't. It's one of that variety of crosses that started in Groom, Texas, toward the end of the 20th century and has since spread to locations all across the nation's eastern half. (I can't remember ever seeing one other than Groom west of the Mississippi.) This version of the cross stands 110-feet tall and was built in 2009 by the New Creations Chapel for $150,000. New Creations probably should have rethought that, because they ran out of money in 2016 and were forced to sell the property.
But the road to salvation is paved with good intentions, and that's what we'd be driving over for the 250 miles left in the journey. I took my usual assortment of road pictures along the way, but I won't post any of them here. So that does it for the Maine trip. We can finally go home and take a nap.
Hell @ Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2013
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Photograph by Sean Larkin for Midlands Rocks
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Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide.
I know, I know, this is getting old. But the place really is called Hell (meaning something else in Norwegian of course). Still think it's kinda funny.
Cleaned the head, primed and painted - gloss rather than flat as I grabbed the wrong can! Shortened the handle to get rid of bad wood - but had some small chips as I set the head - must have been a bit "not straight"!
Wedge is the original s-shaped one, I added the wood wedge to make sure things stay tight.
Boiled Linseed Oil on the handle.