Making Tracks For HomeFelton, CA

If you follow the light
It's pretty clear
That the tracks head directly to there from here.
Like It Was Only YesterdayBodie, CA

She remembered like it was only yesterday.
When the things that seemed so important at the time ended up not being so at all...
And those she barely noticed were the ones that defined everything.
Don't Look Back
Because if you do...
everything will seem strangely distorted and you won't be sure of anything.
Weathered But Not Beaten
Her mother always said tough times built character. And while she used to wonder just how much more character she really needed... in the end, she was never given more than she could handle... and she could still dance. 
Two other things her mother respectively claimed were true and vitally important.
The Corner RoomBodie, CA

A page turned at the edge of her mind...
The day she looked out the window
And realized it was time to go.
The Days My Grandmother Remembers
I grew up on a ranch. And I spent our hot, hot summers on my grandmother's ranch, where I learned to handle a handgun, a rifle... drive a tractor, a car, a horse and buggy - and all sorts of incredibly useful things that one day yet may be useful again.

All I have to see is a scene like this one and it takes me back to the those marvelous, innocent days where the smell of damp dirt (from the sprinklers she'd set every night to settle the dust on the driveway)... the grass hay in the barn, the dry grasses outside, live oak trees and dusty horses were like an olfactory ambrosia.

I don't really expect you to truly understand this... but it's OK. 
I just wanted to share what I felt when saw this little scene in the foothills of the Sierras one day.
Monterey



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Snow Falls On The Lake In The Woods Donner Lake, CA
There would never be another moment
Just like this.
With the snowflakes arranged just so in mid flight... 
and the lake herself holding her breath to keep still. 



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The Startling TruthBodie, CA




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The Startling Truth

Bodie, CA




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The Startling TruthBodie, CA




©Karen Hutton - Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0)

The Startling Truth

Bodie, CA




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See photo in original gallery.