Where Laughter Lived
3/27/2017 8:30:34 AMWhile hiking recently near the Cascades on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC, my ex-CIA hiking buddy and I came upon this old house on an abandoned road. Evidence of a large family was still there, including a scrap from a publication back in the 1950s. As we very cautiously walked through the sagging ruins I thought I could faintly hear children's voices from the past. I changed the setting of the house in the painting to bring it out of the woods where we saw it. [...]
