Seeing 2012 (#58)

For your consideration:  a remnant of what surely was a bucolic living . . . or at least my imagination (and yearning) would have it so.

More likely:  the setting was pastoral enough, but the actual daily existence was undoubtedly filled with laborious challenges requiring tremendous expenditures of time and fortitude.  Being even today quite remote from mainstream civilization, it's not difficult to surmise that life on this acreage was far more a matter of simple survival rather than the romantic, nurturing seclusion I'd like to fantasize it might have been.

After all, there's a reason the hospitality offered now is completely open-door . . .

Abandoned House, Panoche Valley, #5243-7D

© 2012 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: January 21, 2012; Canon 7D; f/8 @ 1/1000 sec; —1/3 EV; ISO 400;
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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