Gardiner sits on the Wyoming/Montana border and acts as the Northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park. Its main street offers visitors provisions, tours, rafting and fishing trips, horseback rides and gifts of all kinds. The young man who carries his tub of laundry past these screaming walls seems oblivious to all of it. I like the two flags that I was able to work into the composition at opposite ends of the diagonal that runs through the image. One says its store is “open” and the other is the American flag. Both of them are red, white and blue, and every sign in the picture uses at least one of those colors in its message.