somerset pt. 4

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One final view from our most recent trip to the abandoned brick works in Somerset, Virginia. Come winter time I've got to return to see if there are indeed clay pits out back of these buildings. Because surely the raw material for the bricks didn't come from any farther away than a half mile. One thing we've got an abundance of around here is red clay. I've learned that one doesn't go idlely walking in tall grasses, because the chiggers can be brutal. Later in the year, when the vegetation is mostly dormant, it will be "safe" to go poke around and see if there are some water filled pits from which the bricks from this plant would have come. As Edward Burtynsky has shown us, any man made edifice is bound to have a concomitant hole in the ground, somewhere.