December 27
It had been a dry year or two or three. A fire that started in April 2011 burned for 23 days, torching 314,000 acres of land. Much was lost – homes, trees, cattle – and it still hasn’t rained enough for the future to be free of fire danger.
Across the road from a fire-ruined house, the cemetery’s cistern leaks on one side, providing water enough for the tallest stand of grass around.
Fort Davis, Texas
photographed 11.11.11
Posted on December 27, 2012, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, fort davis, fort davis texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, rock house fire, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
One Day | One Image 
Ladder to the top
to look down into the depths
into mystery.
LikeLike
A cemetery needs a cistern? Are Texans thirsty, dead or alive?
LikeLike
Yep, we’re pretty thirsty all the time! I think the water from the cistern is used to water the cemetery landscaping – this part of the state gets about 15″ of annual rainfall, but we’ve been in a drought for a long time, so there’s even less rain than that. Without a little bit of rain (or water) on the grounds, a cemetery will look like this one (http://bit.ly/WZfVQa) with hard, dry ground and rocks.
LikeLike
That ground looks too hard for burying.
LikeLike
I know what you mean! They must use some kind of desert-worthy backhoe.
LikeLike
Maybe the ground is reserved for really hard (and thirsty) people.
LikeLike
I like the old-meets-new sense of this. Beautiful.
LikeLike
Thank you, Karen. The fact that it was in a cemetery adds to the old-meets-new effect just a bit, think.
LikeLike