"A vacant, broken-down Manitoba farm house is a Prairie icon, symbolic of a time passed and a people vanished. Such places, however, are more than just symbols. They are embodiments of time, space and culture. Step through the weathered door of that farmhouse, in the heat of a late July day, and you can feel the chill of abandonment and smell the dust settled there. Tread carefully, because the floors may be rotting and spongy to the step. Shafts of light try to poke through the faded, ragged curtains that ominously flap over yellowed windows. The surrounding quiet is sharp and hard, like the broken glass shards covering the floor. Except for you, no one's been here for years."
A beautiful quote from my co-worker David Butterfield's book, If Walls Could Talk, published by Great Plains Publications.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment