The field and grass are changing colors, from dark brown to emerald green, the fence is there in what may be a tinge of rust and somewhere, these things can happen over ten years to a hundred years time.
The day has made its light shine all round, pulling the clouds back, having the sun pour itself on the soil and the evening that will eventually absorb the rest into its night .
Mans brief attempt at making the lasting barn, that will live until the next year and the next year, and hopefully the next year after that one, without a doubt, its skin falling off in torrential weather, its curved and flippant ringing of the sheets of rain that will fall, will leave it all for the best.
Lights remain a few hours earlier and later, the wisdom of this old homestead moving into the cool and star filled night. Pray on you moon, that you keep watch, and love you sun for working hard to keep this work place alive.
Ralph E Peck
Photograph by Ralph Peck
West of Claremore, Oklahoma
on the backroads under the hills .
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