The Old Mills

The Old Mill
Originally uploaded by Jim Dollar.

I've read that West Virginia has some of the finest motorcycling roads in North America. I'll have to go see about that one day.

Old Mills are places of intrigue. Many are now empty: long gone are the jobs and people who once thrived in them. Grain is no longer milled by water power.

In their day these shops were ahum with activity and commerce. Families made such mills their entire world. The work was hard, but the rewards were pure and simple.

Whenever I happen upon the decaying remnants of such places I pause to think of those folk. I say a little prayer of thanks for them.