There was a Crooked House Acrylic Print

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Near the heart of the dustbowl, a crooked house slants towards its demise. I wonder if another dust bowl may catch us unawares. I have a picture of this house two weeks short of a year previous to this image. The fields around it were green, and white clouds punctuated a blue sky. But now, in 2020, red dirt punctuates faded grass stubble of the year before. Homesteaders must have been sick at heart when the dry years began.

Mary Lee Dereske's images celebrate nature, travel and life. She has exhibited in New Mexico and Washington state, and her work has sold internationally. A native daughter of Michigan, she now lives in New Mexico. All images copyrighted by Mary Lee Dereske and may not be reproduced or otherwise used without explicit permission of the artist.