05/21/12      We have had company all weekend, and graduation parties to attend, so this is a little late getting posted. Hope you have not been waiting on pins and needles to see what was coming.

13^th & Rhode Island
           Not a large place, but well appointed with 19^th century details. Many such places are not cared for well, nor is Kansas humidity kind to wood structures. This one however has not suffered much from neglect or the passage of time. It is impossible to imagine all the stories little places like these could tell. Some histories can be dug from the past I suppose, otherwise we will just have to let the image do the talking.

Gray and Gold       

         If you head out of town north on 24-40 and then take Highway 24 east past the Tee Pee to the first bend in the road, you will come to the dirt road heading east and the intersection where this old place sits just east. Another abandoned farm. Everything near is farmed, and the close in grass is very healthy and kept neat, so someone is taking some care of the place. It is full of memories and history for some folks probably mostly departed now...
        I was sitting in the shade of a small turnpike bridge over the seldom used dirt road heading south from the place as I did this sketch. It was winter, but this year not at all cold. Paint less structures in the late afternoon sun. The perfect motif for a future water color perhaps.