Maybe the saddest thing in Terlingua is this broken down slide. The sharp branches of winter-dormant plants crowd against the slide’s striped slope, which ends at a large rock.  The only tree in sight would do nothing to block the sun, which would heat the metal slide to dangerous levels in the summer.

It looks like lost dreams.

But maybe it doesn’t matter:  it’s a ghost town, after all.

Terlingua, Texas

photographed 1.20.2013