Jack, Caydance remembered had once sent her a postcard with an image of Denali National Park. A wilderness in Alaska. A place that was not where he was, nor had he ever been there.

She stood back and looked again at the small image. until what she had originally missed was clear. What she had thought was a children's photo image was familiar because it was a blurry black and white copy of the central image in Robert Bechtle's painting of a 1957 Ford..

But In Bechtle's painting, although the viewpoint and the car were the same, the Spanish style red-tiled roofed houses were obviously in suburban California.

studio icon Outside, the sun had set. Caydance closed the curtains and turned on the light.