Wood & Tin-siding!!

Blurred window reflection of Bodie, California.

The reflections in the old buildings in Bodie, reflect the same sight as 125 years ago.

The “wood and tin-siding” has weathered. Along side, the tumbleweed and odd “sage brush” has claimed their place also in the landscape of History significance. Above “treeline,” the elevation, and its frozen ground, doesn’t allow for a “growing season.”

Bodie in 1881, had a population of Miners’, who endured the same “seasons” in Bodie. The dirt roads were traveled by Freight-wagons in the same freezing cold dark Winter, and the same Summer-time unpredictable “mountain weather.”

Late Summer, with the snow-melted and slush and muddy roads, some what passable is the post card picture of Bodie that prevails.

The wood-sided buildings that survived the 1892 Fire and the 1932 Fire are a “testimony to time.”

The BODIE MINERS’ UNION- a Fraternal Brotherhood - defined Bodie, (Mono County) California, both economically and spiritually.

The graves in the Bodie Cemetery are also bordered by sage-brush. Most of the Miners’ are long been forgotten- yet their NAMES, DATE-of DEATH, give the “only meaning to the purpose of the Bodie Mining District.”