Monthly Archives: March 2012
March 6
Remember the Mt. Zion Baptist Church from March 3? Out in back, I found the remnants of last summer’s garden, including this giant, mummified okra.
near New Home, Texas
photographed 3.3.2012
March 5
Down State Route 91, south of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, is a tiny place called Puerta de Luna. It’s not really on the route to anywhere, but it’s a nice enough drive, as the road winds between the Pecos River and red cliffs.
The town was settled in 1863, and thrived until it lost the position of county seat to Santa Rosa. It’s claim to fame is that Billy The Kid ate his 1880 Chrstmas dinner in the home of Don Alejandro and Dona Secundina Grzelachowski.
It is also locally famous for its green chile, known as PDL.
Also – and I can’t decide if this is sad or entertaining – Google maps locates it incorrectly. So if you want to go, you’d have better luck with MapQuest. Or a state highway map.
Puerta de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 8.7.2011
March 4
At the abandoned cotton gin, there’s a room with a file cabinet, a blue sink, and lots of pigeon crap.
Woodrow, Texas
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?”)
March 2
There’s something about cemeteries, I guess, that attracts photographers. You can probably draw several conclusions about this, and probably all of your conclusions would be correct.
And, so, here’s a scene from the San Jose Cemetery, as a summer storm builds up over Lorraine, Jesus, a flock of angels, and her cross.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 8.3.2011
One Day | One Image 