There’d been a fire at this house; we could tell that much. Judging from the chunks of previously-molten glass and the one piece of aluminum that had melted into a silvery pancake, it was a hot fire. (Aluminum melts at 1,221 degrees, I found out later). Almost nothing remained to give us any clues about what rooms had been where (a pile of broken china might have shown us where the dining room was, but who could tell?) or how big or how old the place might have been.

It’s in a remote part of a remote county, and internet searches didn’t reveal anything about when it happened, or why, or to whom.

We hope everyone made it out.

Cochran County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014

(This is the third photo from the Day of Driving and Photographing. You can see the first one here and the second one here.)