Note: Geek Husband has fixed my computer issues. Here's the entry that I was trying to post earlier. Maybe not as emotionally laden as I'd led you to believe, but more so than most posts on this blog! I'm also adding some pics to my photo gallery that go along with this post.
Here's a picture from our trip. Hopefully, you'll think it's artsy. It evokes so many more emotions for me. They say you can't ever really go back home. The thing is home will never be the same. This picture shows the current state of my father's barn. I spent many hours there playing in the haystack when I was a child. For a while he even had a rope hanging from the roof that I could swing on. Yes, Tarzan on the ranch. Or should that be Tarzanza? However, all it took was the sight of a mouse scurrying underfoot to send me scurrying back home.
My father died almost ten years ago. My mother (at almost 77) does an amazing job of keeping the ranch going with help from my brother. It just isn't ever going to be the in the same condition my father kept it in when it was truly a working ranch. The barn will soon be beyond repair. There isn't really any reason to repair it. Or anyone with the time and inclination to do so. It's always sad to see an era end. Even more so when you were part of that era.
Wonderful photography! It will definitely stir memories.
Posted by: Jami | Jun 21, 2006 at 10:49 AM
Very touching entry and your pics are great. I especially love the little trike and the barbed wire one. Each pic looks like it has so much meaning and a story I bet that goes with it.
Posted by: audrey | Jun 03, 2006 at 06:59 AM