The Crabtree's

The Crabtree’s, watercolor on paper, app 9x11 inches, 2004.
From the collection of Jessica and Chris Moland

This is the old Crabtree house. Out on the road to the race track, runs around Rocky Hill to Doyle Colony at the Springville Highway, past the old rodeo grounds; the road turns there by the district cemetery, what is it called…oh yes, Putnamn Avenue.

The new high school, they built it out there. The house is just across the street from the new high school.

It’s East Olive now. They call that stretch of Putnam East Olive.

There were lots of Crabtree’s in Springville. This place was built by Thomas Jasper Crabtree, same tree, the other branch, for his parents James Abraham and Paulina Moreland Crabtree with proceeds from sale of their mining claims at Mineral King, in about 1903.

That hill on the left is Worth, the long one trails off to the right is supposed to be Success. Most of the blue mountains here are part of The Reservation, then south into Deer Creek.

Dad would've asked about the power poles, wonder where they were, ask why I left them out.

All the boiled egg clouds and not a line for a bird to sit.