Category: agrarian

Madison County

three horse barn tree
In the country, the urban services, garbage pickup, police, libraries, parks, schools, sidewalks, grocers, professional offices, jobs. They all are at a distance. There is a horse, a barn, a tree. Wildness sometimes, an ordering of the chaos at others. Always beauty. The beauty of creation. There was a song by Canned Heat.

Sledgehammer

Meeting today with a neighbor who understands the Internet. Hoping, with his help, to get back in the good graces of Google. I am tempted by the sledgehammer. In 1978 I was breaking temporary constructions to reclaim lumber. The next owner of the farm burnt down the loved house in the background. Seemingly, because he could.

Lurtie Breedin and Scott Christian in the tall grass
Left, Lurtie Breedin. One of the CCC boys.