a variety of yucca forms this image that pulls your eye into one corner

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A green window in a green wall. The green paint peeling off of the shutters reveals they were once pink

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It is a narrow passage this door leads to.

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Lookit all them levers and handles! Why it's enough to keep many a men busy all afternoon runnin' this pieces of farm machinery.

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This yellow and green wall in New Orleans has developed such an interesting personality

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A broad stand of smaller cacti makes a nice texture print.

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Don't scorn those thorns! This stand of cacti might take some time to extricate oneself from if one were to stumble into it.

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another background print

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They aren't holding classes here anymore. Without a bell to ring, no one knows when to show up. ad the rook looks a little damp in the rain.

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The old tractor junkyard didn't have just tractors. In his decades of attending farm auctions my old friend had accumulated a wide variety of farm ephemera. this is an old tin feeder with a cast iron trough.........

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Cut by rocks, sticks and whatever kind of rude items that can be found in a cornfield, this tire has earned it's patina.

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Tucked away in a hidden inlet along the Northern California Coast you might come across this gnarled redwood tree. Twisted by a constant wind and saturated by a nearly constant fog, this hollowed but still...

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This tractor carcass has developed an a rich exposed type of rust. An inverted tin can over the exhaust pipe prevents rain from getting into the engine block. It has probably been a while since anyone...

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There is no tire for this fender to be fending but it is the absence of the tire that allows us to see the inner side of the fender.

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This lone spotlight seems to be peering off into the distance. Is it discerning the future or remembering the past?

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One might be tempted to say this tractor stands alone in its field. Perhaps in the past it did. Now it stands in the derelict company of its forlorn agricultural peers.

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