Undiminished Things
Outbuilding, Orange County, NC There is a singer everyone has heard, / Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, / Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. / He says that leaves are old and that for flowers / Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. / He says the early petal-fall is past / When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers / On sunny days a moment overcast; / And comes that other fall we name the fall. / He says the highway dust is over all. / The bird would cease and be as other birds / But that he knows in singing not to sing. / The question that he frames in all but words / Is what to make of a diminished thing. -- "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost (1916)
Red barn, Orange County, NC
Farm with red barn, Orange Grove Road, Orange County, NC
Abandoned house, Rose Hill, NC
Abandoned house, Rose Hill, NC
Crossroads, Cherry Grove, NC
Red-roof Outbuilding, Cherry Grove, NC
Red-roof outbuilding detail, Cherry Grove, NC
Old Store, Cherry Grove, NC
Out of Whack House, Siler City, NC February 2021
Out of Whack House II. This was once a lovely house and farm, now guarded by a small herd of cows and one small bull who gathered across the road to stare me down. Siler City, NC, February 2021
Out of Whack, in color Siler City, NC, February 2021
Out of Whack House, overlooked by the moon Siler City, NC, February 2021
Cattle guard, Out of Whack House Siler City, NC, February 2021
Cattle guard II, Out of Whack House Siler City, NC, February 2021
