Lonesome cabin

Lonesome, 5 by 7 watercolor, 300# d'Arches

Abandoned cabins and farmsteads dot the Great Plains, testaments or tombstones to the people who tried to scratch out a living where only nomads belonged. 
I am always attracted to them, imagining the lives and ghosts that inhabit them, the stories untold, beckoning of love and loss.
The prairie wind and grasses and open skies breathe "lonesome."
Have we  not all been lonesome at one time or another?

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Inspired by a black and white photo by HrSchmitt.