Dreams and Years gone past.

[stumpstalker]

I don't do the paintings, it is Nan Quintin who does the paintings.

Here she is standing before one of her "old iron" paintings.

[stumpstalker]

Kathy and I did happen upon a graveyard of Wabi-Sabi qualifying "old iron" in Ackworth, New Hampshire last June.

So, I had Kathy record with her camera these as possible motifs for Nan. The equipment brands include Mack, Autocar, and Brockway...

[Gerald McPherson]

Many years ago one would find remnants of whisky stills now and then while hunting in North Georgia. Sometimes really big ones.

[Phil Yearout]

Cool stuff Phil! We come across a lot of abandoned farm implements out here; I always wonder: did the farmer retire them, or park them here for later use that never happened, or...?

[stumpstalker]

For me, hunting in the North Maine Woods, the feeling has been experienced when happening upon derelict logging equipment, once so economically useful, now superseded.

It gives rise to an engaging sense of nostalgia, not without that pang of mortality.

The most memorable equipment find for me out there was the smallest. It was an upright galvanized pail, it's bottom now rusted out so badly that a forty-foot tree was randomly growing straight and healthily up through it.