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.