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the future upon back of the past

            Pentax MX | FA 31/1.8 | Provia 400F (expired)

This image actually brings me pain... it's a gnawing, melancholic sort. This is the view from the edge of my grandparents' old home, taken the last day I was there last year, weeks before the plot was sold. The acreage surrounding was sold several years ago. 

My grandfather was told by the management of Columbia Reach, the purchaser, emphatically told in fact, that they would be slowly transitioning much of the property to the newer trellised production methods, but that most of the mature trees would be left as they were and harvested traditionally. This was important to them, particularly since some of the best trees were located here, sprawling out from their windows of the house to the South-west, some of the best producing trees and best kept of the entire ranch. I'm not sure it was even a year later that they returned in late winter after a month or  two in Arizona to find the entire area razed. It was dust field construction zone for months and then the trellis went in. This was the view they saw each and every day until they both passed last year, and frankly I am convinced that this view led to both of them passing much sooner than they may have otherwise.

Though I've looked across this expanse countless times toward Cowiche Valley, nothing in this photo is familiar to me except the distant Cowiche hills. The rows of non-trees and the giant new home construction that stands out ominously above the valley, those are all new in the past 5 years. They even regraded the property so that the natural run-off area which was a draw down to the buttes was made flat and provided easier trellis. To me this is a moonscape. Somehow familiar and completely alien at the same time.

Time. It's a relentless and funny thing.

Taken on: May 29, 2018

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Camera: Pentax MX, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax MX
Lens:	FA 31mm 1.8 ltd
ISO:	400
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1 (Windows)
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