Back Road Beauty: At The End of the Day

"Take the back roads instead of highways."

- Minnie Pearl

At the end of the day, you glance west and see something extra gorgeous, and you just have to jump in the truck and take a ride.




I especially like it when my driver (my husband of 31 years today!) wants to go and then I can just roll down the window and shoot.

Not too far from me sits an old pair of gigantic abandoned barns.  They're so lonesome looking they break my heart. Their house is gone, and their family long gone, but the land is still farmed.  

One day I'm going to drive by only to discover they've been blown down in some of the gigantic winds we get out here.  

But while they're here, I photograph them in any season, because they're just something else.

And they've never looked better than lately, when they appear in front of a dazzling sunset.

And the silhouette that pleases the eye, is sweetly scented with the smells of evening, of the earth, of the crops that are growing, and...

The freshly cut wheat fields nearby...

And you realize that time changes some things, because it must.

But if I concentrate on too much of what was...

I might not see, hear, or smell...

What IS...







At the end of the day.