March 3
If you head north out of New Home, after you pass the school, the first road you come to is County Road 6. Take a right. Don’t worry – the road’s not paved, but it’s been ages since it rained, and that red dirt is as hard as pavement. This is what you are looking for: your map (page 44 in The Roads of Texas) has a tiny cross and the words “Mt. Zion” and you think it might be a cemetery. You are wrong: it’s this church, which doesn’t have a sign out front. Later, on your way back to the main roads, you’ll see this, which clears up a bit of the mystery:
No cemetery, but you haven’t wasted your trip down the dirt road. Not at all.
near New Home, Texas
(Also, while you are there, a man driving a diesel pickup will stop and say, “Howdy, ma’am. I’m a rancher, looking for some land to graze my cattle on. Do you know if the church owns this land over here?”)
Posted on March 3, 2012, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, county road 6, dirt road, haiku, laurie jameson, lynn county, lynn county texas, mt. zion baptist church, new home, new home texas, one day one image, photo a day, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.


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