If time stood still

While this photo is probable mundane and ho-hum to most it has a very special meaning to me. The dark overcast day adds to my feelings.

I am 64 years old. When I was a kid most of the back roads here were not paved. My parents would take me riding on the back roads looking at the leaves, looking for partridge that so often would be in the roads in the fall and just enjoying the outdoors and nature. Now those same roads are paved and lined with big new houses. The areas bear little resemblance to what I remember.

If only we could go back to when we were kids and realize what we had. I'm sure we would have appreciated it more.

When I look at this I get a warm happy feeling. In fact I stared at it for a good 20 minutes just remembering like I haven't in a long time.

I told my wife what I was thinking while she looked at it. She started crying and said, Don't you wish you could go back for just 1 day.

So if no one likes it, if its trash, I don't care, I love it for the emotions it stirs in me from a time long gone.

Hi Ron,

Thanks for sharing this with us. I had a similar experience last year when I visited places I knew well as a child. The farm where I was born had all but disappeared - house, stables, cow sheds all gone, just the barn remaining.

Regards,

Stuart

Ron,

The special reason why this is extra powerful for you is that in addition to your fond memories, this view is built on and buttressed by perhaps the most important over reaching metaphor of humanity, "life as a journey".

The curved road at the end where we do not know what is happening reporesents the future, Remarkably, in your photography, that corner is more brightl lit which, to me at least, is a good sign!

Asher