When I began creating a relationship between these two Bodie houses, I intended to build a sense of mystery into this picture by abstracting the house at left through underexposure, and merging its dark shape into the house in the sunny background at right. And that is exactly what I accomplished. However when editing the picture on a large screen, I noticed detail for the first time that added a new dimension to my sense of mystery. Could that be a TV or radio antenna incongruously sprouting from the house at right? It could be a relic from the 50s, or maybe a park employee lives there, enjoying both the past and present simultaneously. In any event, there is definitely something on the roof of that house that is out of synch and out of time with Bodie itself. It is as if someone one living in the Old West was suddenly projected forward into the future by 100 years. Ah, those details. What would we do without them?