I've made hundreds of images over the years of old abandoned homesteads, houses and barns. I am intrigued, not just by the buildings, but by the lives of the people who may have lived and worked in them. I often imagine a story, a scenario of what might have been inside these crumbling walls, giving breath once again to the people who called it home. These are my stories, brief glimpses into the past. Continuation of series, images 49-52.
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He cuts quite a figure, tall and lean as he is. Some success as a rancher, too. She can scarce believe her good fortune. They’ll marry in the spring.
If the Walls Could Talk series # 49
Log Cabin, Black Mountain Colorado
He’s been gone a few months now. When she hears the floorboards creaking at night she knows it’s him looking in on her. And she waits and bides her time. She’ll join him soon enough.
If the Walls Could Talk series #50
Homestead Near Telluride
Set on a foundation of stone to preserve her walls, she holds the secret of marriage marks, the scent of hay bales lingering in the wood. The memories of horses and cows. If we’re still enough, if we’re quiet enough, we hear milk hitting the pail in the coolness of the morning. The jangle of a harness. The scraping of a rake.
If the Walls Could Talk series #51
Started provin up the homestead in 1912. No runnin water till ’27. Power when we put up a windmill in ‘46. Sons took up runnin the place after that.
If The Walls Could Talk series #52
Chambers RanchChambers Ranch. Gros Ventre, Wyoming, Mormon Row, Grand Tetons National Park
To be continued...
