Somewhere, and just about anywhere in America, there’s a place where the road runs out for the postman.  This is a far as he goes regardless of the wind, the rain, and the snow!  Just beyond the old run-down garage on the right within the painting, the road runs out and the rain-ruts end.  There’s  a turn out only slightly maintained back there where you can just barely turn around, but not much more!  Some greater space for a few junk cars, an old wringer washing machine in the weeds, and a decaying wood pile slowly returning to the earth.   There’s some rotted mop heads scattered about, a few rusted-out galvanized buckets and barrels, some tangled and twisted fence with posts, and a whole lot of poison oak!  There you’ll find some blackberries that you could pick in season, …  if you could tame them well enough to get to the fruit.  And there’s a dog house there where a dog once lived to guard the chickens that are gone now.

Nothing remarkable here today, unless you count the meticulous care and gardening that goes on here daily by an elderly and extremely lonely lady who plants and tends her flowers with the pride of a city dweller!  If you’re lucky enough to pick up your mail here, give yourself some extra time, … cause she’ll talk your ear off!

“End of the Rural Route” is a fictional place, … but I see it clearly just like this!  It doesn’t exist in reality, but I’ve been here a million times, … and I hope that you can say the same.

DETAILS

Original work: Oil on Burlap Board
Original size: 18” x 24”
OFFERED IN GICLEE LIMITED EDITION
Edition size: 400 Regular and 25 Artist Proofs (AP) Except Miniatures.
Giclee Image Dimension: 12” x 16” (or contact the Artist)
Archival Mat or Stretched Canvas
Pricing: Archival Mat $75.00 + Shipping and Handling
Stretched Canvas $185.00 + Shipping and Handling
(Add $15.00 for Artist Proofs when offered) (Tax where required)