Gone

I just realized that I have a lot of photos from around here that are of things that are now gone. The first photo I posted of the dead tree in the field...they cut down that tree this past fall. The photo at the top of the blog of the fall trees in the cemetery...the gray field in the background of that photo is now the home of our new superwalmart. Oh yeah...and that cow is of course several years ago now several someones' tasty dinners. The barn in this photo was torn down last year as well. I was bummed. I loved this barn...had dreamed about living in it...had dreamed about fixing it up as a Nia dance studio (that one's for you Danielle if you ever read this). It was on my back road home and lots of times when I passed by there would be an owl sitting in one of the open upper windows. We take pics of things that we know will quickly change (mostly for commemoration) and we take pics of things that have been around forever and seem like will never change (mostly for aesthetics). The chance and unintended overlap of these two makes these photos more special to me I suppose. So this is a cool old barn and this barn can never be seen or photographed again...unless you look at a picture or take a picture of a picture. I guess which means it will now somehow be there forever.

"But the BARN, sitting lonely in the placid DUST, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a SHUTTER then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have gone before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have gone before.'
Then the BARN said, `Nevermore.'" --Edgar A Poe, with modifications