Hard Days

An abandoned home in the Texas panhandle.

The Texas plains can be a tough place.  It's brutally hot in the summertime, it can be bone chilling cold in the winter.  The storms are as severe as it gets in the spring and that's if you're not in the middle of a drought.  This photograph kind of captures that essence.  It just looks like it's in the middle of a tough place, all weathered and worn.  But I'm sure if the walls could talk it would tell stories of pride, liveliness, perseverance and heartbreak.  I can only imagine the last days this place was occupied as a home and someone loading up the old truck outside to start life over again somewhere else and shutting the doors for the final time.