The rural landscape is rich and varied. Beautiful farms, bungalows, and every now and then, cottages and shacks and trailers that house the rural underclass. I see in my reading that they have always been part of the rural landscape, but I see the rural scape as a mix, and that is what makes it interesting. People live in a variety of ways, and at first, I saw them one way, but often, as I got to know them, I saw them another. Sometimes they choose their lives, often they love it. The woman who lives here loves her porch, her view of an isolated road, her garden, her dogs in the back – she has read some of my books – and she loves being left in peace. She did not wish to have her face photographed, as her children, she thought, would not approve of her home. But she told me it is a palace to her, and she thanked me for photographing it. I call her Queen Ida. Every night she sits in her yellow chair with her 14-year-old Corgi and watches the sun set.