tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4428716537254056519..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Russell Lee: Riches (Along the Million Dollar Highway)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28653176050204468482010-09-29T06:33:56.433-07:002010-09-29T06:33:56.433-07:00Thank you, Marcia -- and also for providing the in...Thank you, Marcia -- and also for providing the inspiration for that Texas high plains post.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77756981016332333232010-09-28T06:35:47.930-07:002010-09-28T06:35:47.930-07:00And yet another moving set of posts. Of course th...And yet another moving set of posts. Of course the Rosebud County triggered thoughts of home, as did the hay stacking (There was an art to that.), and bleak Texas. All as you say are from our history -- yet sadly they are contemporary. <br /><br />I have At The Fair in my hand. What a fine book. I am taking my time, enjoying your poetry.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150292834089323928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14132361631590060902010-09-27T08:34:34.446-07:002010-09-27T08:34:34.446-07:00Taking a break from studying and worrying, I found...Taking a break from studying and worrying, I found this, the real payoff. Nothing to negate the lessons contained in the previous Lees, but this union of words and pictures is just magnificent. Thank you. "A harvest ascending to the sky"; "The fullness disguised as bareness, remembering".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15896493116932156122010-09-27T07:48:53.211-07:002010-09-27T07:48:53.211-07:00Tom,
Yes, thanks, such beautiful stuff, Russell L...Tom,<br /><br />Yes, thanks, such beautiful stuff, Russell Lee out there seeing things in the "world less ugly," "people less sad" "awaiting the sapphire point of a tomorrow" . . . .<br /><br /><br />9.27<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible <br />ridge, waning white moon above branches<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> are equal to each other when<br /> brought together, their<br /><br /> frequency, consequence which<br /> is, at different places<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />wingspan of gull flapping toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81118049277767178162010-09-27T07:31:02.992-07:002010-09-27T07:31:02.992-07:00Thank you, Aditya. Yes, that's the long arc, f...Thank you, Aditya. Yes, that's the long arc, from the Valley of the Shadow of Death... to the Million Dollar Highway.<br /><br />I salute you in the millennium city. <br /><br /><br />In an earlier series, Russell Lee follows the Million Dollar Highway to the Camp Bird Mine at Ouray...<br /><br />(See bottom shot, "These were the riches of the earth...")<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/only-here-russell-lee-in-west-1940-1942.html" rel="nofollow">Only Here: Russell Lee in the West (1940-1942)</a>.<br /><br />And for a previous historical view of the same excavation scene:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/man-of-ouray.html" rel="nofollow">The Man of Ouray</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48838734777539663452010-09-27T07:18:43.691-07:002010-09-27T07:18:43.691-07:00From here to here.
Exquisite post Tom !
Wonderf...From <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/recession.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> to here. <br /><br />Exquisite post Tom ! <br />Wonderful wonderful lines.<br /><br /><br />golden silence rained less ugly the people less sad harvest ascending to the sky movement of clouds <br /><br />And the way you ended as the way you ended-<br /><br /><br />Junipers shagged with ice<br /><br />Awaiting the sapphire point of a tomorrow<br /><br />I am reminded of Himachal Pradesh hills rains silence happiness as I sit here in the millennium city waiting ... for the unknown to happen.<br /><br />Thank you for such a beautiful post Tom.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.com