by Carl Sandburg

IT’S going to come out all right—do you know?
The sun, the birds, the grass—they know.
They get along—and we’ll get along.

Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting
And the letter you wait for won’t come,
And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray
And the letter I wait for won’t come.

There will be ac-ci-dents.
I know ac-ci-dents are coming.
Smash-ups, signals wrong, washouts, trestles rotten,
Red and yellow ac-ci-dents.
But somehow and somewhere the end of the run
The train gets put together again
And the caboose and the green tail lights
Fade down the right of way like a new white hope.

For the complete version of Caboose Thoughts, visit American Poems.  This is a close up shot of the caboose posted earlier, which you can see here.  The previous shot was taken with the Lensbaby, while this one was not.  This caboose, with it’s processing, is very different from what I normally do, but I like it.  This was initally processed in Lightroom, exported into Photoshop where I used a Topaz filter plugin, and then finished off with a frame done with Filter Forge.  I thought I’d interject this bit of color before resuming with some more black and white images on Thursday.

Don’t forget, I’ve got a blog anniversary give-away coming up this weekend!