Monthly Archives: February 2013
Veterans for Peace
While most of the graves at the Terlingua cemetery are from the 1930s and 40s, there are some newer ones. Like this one, with its Veterans for Peace badge.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
Outdoor plumbing
On the other side of this building, is a nice little tableaux that includes corrugated metal, a pair of square windows, and a toilet. Although of course, the toilet isn’t functional: there’s not a flush lever. Yeah – that’s the only thing that keeps it from being operational.
Also, some might suggest (Ahem, Ehpem – I am looking at you) a certain Mondrian-esque quality to this shot. Perhaps another haiku is in order?
Lamesa, Texas
photographed 1.17.2013
Slide: Terlingua
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
3 trees, 2 windows, and a door
In the winter, the trees’ shadows claw their way up the front of the building.
Also, maybe I have mentioned that I have a thing about symmetry? That I don’t like it. So, while the window-door-window arrangement here is symmetrical, the spacing’s not, giving it the much-needed (in my opinion) dash of asymmetry.
West Oak Street
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.13
In a ghost town, do ghosts go to church?
I guess this is slightly related to the earlier post from the cemetery at the Terlingua ghost town.
Up the hill from the cemetery, and facing away from the town, is this little church. The only evidence that anyone had been around lately was an apple wedge, slightly dessicated, on the altar.
I am not too sure what this means, but my favorite part was the way the altar cloth hangs lower on the left.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
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