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| Category: | Landscape
Photography
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Posted: | March 25, 2012 |
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Artist Notes
There is in our town a piece of property which used to belong to the "Baron" of the area in the olden days of lumbering. The great house was built higgelty piggelty as his need for more rooms for his growing family grew. Besides the house, there was a carriage house, green house, stables, gardens, pottery, and a few more outbuildings. The whole of the area, about 5 acres, was surrounded by a dry wall standing about five feet high and within that, lilacs.
When I moved here 22 years ago the house was still standing as were most of the out buildings and the wall. The house burned to the ground about 15 years ago, having been abandoned when the last of the relatives died off. After that one by one uses were found for the remaining buildings and they were carted off. The wall has been disappearing bit by bit and all of it that is left are little piles of rubble, the lilac trees and this gate that sits on one edge of the property. I was taking my evening walk last year right as the sun was going down on a clear sky and came upon this scene.
Lightened shadows a bit
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