Someone's Home.

San Luis Valley, Colorado (click)

They are everywhere. 
Lord knows there are plenty of dilapidated homesteads scattered throughout our area in southeast Kansas — people’s past homes.   Left lonely and abandoned, many here are hidden by timber, vines and high grass.  There, they simply rot away, unnoticed.
  
But out on the desert floor they stand stark, like headstones commemorating past lives.  This one is on the north side of San Luis County Road N6 between the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Colorado Highway 17, just north of Alamosa.   In the high, arid environment they decay more slowly.

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There are more of these on that valley road but this one always catches our attention when we drive into Alamosa.  Maybe it is the position relative to the road, or the texture of the weather-worn siding.  In places where you can actually see through the house you can almost hear the voices of a mother or children laughing inside of the sad, north-leaning structure.   These old buildings were the center of someone’s life, hopes, and future expectations . . .

     . . .  until something happened.

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