Undiminished Things
There is a singer everyone has heard, / Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, / Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. / He says that leaves are old and that for flowers / Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. / He says the early petal-fall is past / When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers / On sunny days a moment overcast; / And comes that other fall we name the fall. / He says the highway dust is over all. / The bird would cease and be as other birds / But that he knows in singing not to sing. / The question that he frames in all but words / Is what to make of a diminished thing. -- "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost (1916)Above: Outbuilding, Orange County, NC
Red barn, Orange County, NC
Farm with red barn, Orange Grove Road, Orange County, NC
Abandoned house, Rose Hill, NC
13th-century estate, Le Jura, France
Above and below: Crossroads, Cherry Grove, NC
Out of Whack House, Siler City, NC. This once-lovely house and farm is now guarded by a small herd of cows and one small bull who gathered across the road to stare me down. February 2021
Walls, Re-imagined
New York City
Raleigh, NC
Los Angeles
Cattle guard II, Out of Whack House Siler City, NC, February 2021