Brett’s sunflower window, D. H. Lawrence Memorial near San Cristobal, New Mexico , longshot and detail, February 8th, 2007
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Beautiful detail. Notice no yellow petal in one of the pie slices? I wonder why.
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Good question. Didn’t even notice the missing petal until you mentioned it. Maybe age has worn it away. Maybe intention.
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My bet is time.
When we make our next pilgrimage to the chapel, at least one more petal will have dropped, from the look of things.
The season of a sunflower is very short.
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I feel like we might have seen the ranch the way it is for the last time. The disrepair is staggering. I want the University of New Mexico to step in and do some much needed restoration. But if they do that, the ranch will never be the same. Not as we have seen it.
Right now, it’s like stepping back in time. It’s haunting the way everything has stayed exactly the same. If they do go into restoration mode, the feel of the place will change dramatically.
Remember looking in the window on the door of the office? A blast from the past.
It’s hard to choose – restore. Or let the earth reclaim it.
I’m just happy we visited it as much as we did this year. Each time I go back there, I take away something new. And it is always renewing for me. A spiritual place.
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There is something in the American spirit that will come through and yes, the ranch does need work and no, it will be the same.
Preservationists mean well but they are like writers. Wanting to hold on to the past.
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