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#TBT: Whisper of Hay Dust, v.2.0

Posted on January 19, 2023

This was first posted January 22, 2012.

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Hay dust filters through the sunlight, drifting in lazy circles until it settles back on wooden edges.

Ancient grain, a pile of manure (well-aged), mice scent, and dried out leather add to the ambience as I wonder at the memories held in these log walls.  Memories that don’t belong to me, yet I can feel them just the same.

I sense their ghosts in the warm air.

The thousands of brush strokes from a curry comb flinging sagebrush and dust and cockleburs to the floor.  Fragments of blankets and saddles and halters and breastcollars and bridles adorn the mangers and posts and walls.

The milk cows that must have stomped and shifted their weight, earning choice words from the milker.

The teams that pulled wagons and sleds and equipment long rusted.  Their harnesses now so crispy and dry that they will never grace the back of a horse again.  The jingle of their traces has gone still.

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The cats who waited for a warm spray of morning milk for breakfast, mewling and rubbing against a worn denim leg.

Evidence shows they all were here once.

Long ago.

Today it was just me, and my dogs, and the whisper of hay dust drifting in the sunlight.

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3 thoughts on “#TBT: Whisper of Hay Dust, v.2.0”

  1. Joanne says:
    January 21, 2023 at 1:05 PM

    Beautiful photos giving a gentle hint of stories gone by.

    Reply
  2. Marilyn says:
    January 20, 2023 at 8:09 AM

    This is a beautiful reflection in words, enhanced by the sepia tone of the photos. You must have lingered there quite awhile and taken a long, nostalgic look at everything. Thank you.

    Reply
  3. Susan says:
    January 20, 2023 at 4:28 AM

    Love it!

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Since 2008, I’ve kept this photographic journal of life on a Wyoming ranch.  I share ranch work, my family, crafts and DIY, my English Shepherd, Bravo, and a love for this land.  Enjoy this red dirt country!

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