I found an old photo that was taken a long time ago- of our white country house before it was remodeled. The photo, with the white edges of the paper still showing, was untouched. As I often do, I think of what I could do to enhance the picture. I would shape up the amorphous gravel driveway. I would replace the metal culvert in the ditch with grass. I would erase the rust from the roof of the barn in the background.
Only, I wouldn’t. That’s how it was in my childhood, and I wouldn’t change it- any of it- for the world.
