There are a few clues that led me to believe there was not going to be a basketball game any time soon. For one thing, the goal lacked both a hoop and a net. And the court was a little rough and weedy. And of course, the whole place had a certain air of abandonment about it.

(I was a block away and something pulled me down a passageway to this place. I am pretty sure it was the ghost of the basketball hoop…

Dixon, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024