Lesslie, Bit Pine, 1988
from Little Worlds
1988
Ben and I move over to Leslie’s place, on the south face of our shared mountain. Laura and I are able to sell our thirty acres, and I use my part of the money to build a darkroom and studio a short walk from the house.
Leslie and I marry in the spring and soon are expecting a child. It’s a happy time. We know the baby will be a girl. Her name will be Kate.
The house and land are never-ending projects. We make house changes for the baby—replacing leaky windows, installing a spiral staircase to the upstairs where Ben sleeps.
We’ve cleared more garden space by cutting trees and turning never-plowed ground. We fence in a pasture area awash with multiflora rose, briars, and small saplings, and turn a small herd of goats onto it. We don’t see them for days, but in time we’re left with a cleared field.
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