A Path Not Taken

Many years ago, I took a photo of this place out of a car window with an old instamatic camera.  A few months later I returned to explore the area only to find it had been plowed under to create a freeway.  It was a lost opportunity.  How many times I have, in my rush to be somewhere else...somewhere more important, missed to golden moment, let opportunity or beauty just slide by as if the world wasn't spinning faster than any of us can imagine.  In this one case, though, I unearthed the almost 50 year old photo and resurrected the long gone place in memory and paint.  It is a small study in second chances.