Bodie - larryklink

Bodie

Scenes from Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, CA.

Bodie is a California
historic site; the ruins of abandoned gold mining town being kept in a state of arrested decay to maintain the look and character of the time when the last residents abandoned the town.

A Ghostly Memory
A column of sunlight illuminates the dim kitchen as evening arrives. The cooking and baking is done. The kids have been fed. The table is set. All is ready for the master of the house to return from his day’s work. A typical day in Bodie during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s? Probably. But now, the counter cleaned and the table prepared goes unused. They are covered with a thick layer of dust reminiscent of the flour once mixed in the bowl and baked in the tin. A ghostly memory of a kitchen filled with voices: laughter, worry, love, turmoil. How was your day? Is one of the kids outgrowing his shoes? Do we have enough food to put up for the winter? Long ago abandoned, this kitchen, this house, sits as a snapshot, a moment in time representative of joy and struggles of lives once lived. Bodie, CA, JUL 2014
Outhouse on a Hill
Bodie, CA, MAY 2016
Night Sky Over Bodie
Bodie, CA, AUG 2014 Those of us that have camped in dark places know the beauty of the countless stars in a sea of black. But, Friday evening, I got the sense of what it must have been like to live in a remote area in the latter part of the 19th century. Night was night; it was dark. I suspect, there was light from scattered kerosene lamps and wood fires, but when the townsfolk settled in for the night, the town must have felt ghostly and scary. Check out the Andromeda Galaxy in the upper left corner.

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Bodie, CA, MAY 2013