When first sighted in September 1977 the Cathcart Chair was inhabited by an Invalid Demon [which later proved to be a woodrat’s nest] and hidden in the back of the two room hip-roofed stone house William Cathcart built early in the twentieth century on upper Pole Creek, Owyhee Desert, Oregon.  It’s said he lived there through the depression and at least one world war, running cattle and horses on the desert as well as crafting saddles, tack and furniture, only to return ‘east’ in the end, an end long ago even then.  Revisiting the scene In 1985 I decided the chair needed another life so carried it off to Radar Ranch, where it stayed until 2007 on Auburn Peak before moving ninety miles west to the Wall Spring porch and its eventual roof, under which many hours have passed peering east towards the Selenites in contemplation of memory, mortality, dogs, dinner or whatever the weather offers.

Such as sunsets…

…some of which may not have been exactly from the chair or even exactly the Selenites, but close enough;  June, 2016…

 

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