Monthly Archives: July 2024
bone density
My traveling companion: Look! There’s some kind of a carcass down there!”
Me (as I execute a pair of u-turns): Can we get down to it?
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Anyway, as you can see, we DID get down to it. And made photos, of course.
It was an elk skeleton. Unless it was a pterodactyl. There’s no way to tell: we’re not paleontologists or whatever. (My spouse, who is also not a paleontologist*, was kind enough to explain all the ways this WASN’T a pterodactyl…)
near Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
*He’s a Pilates instructor, which is very similar to being a paleontologist because both fields involve bones. Or something.
javier y la virgen
At one of the shrines at the sacred place, I saw a pair of tiny socks hanging with a rosary, a cord bracelet, a safety pin, and a medallion that says “Italy.” And sorrow – there seems to be a lot of sorrow there, too.
el santuario de Chimayó
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
bound for the infinite
This is one of my favorite cemeteries to photograph, and I’ve never even been inside; it’s locked all the time. There’s a path all the around the outside and the wall’s almost always low enough to see/photograph the graves.
Or if you are really lucky, you can get the wall, the graves, the mountains, and a fast-approaching thunderstorm all in one shot. (And then, if you hurry, you can get back to your car to wait out that rain.)
Galisteo, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2024
flag day
Maybe you’re wondering if I am *still* showing Pride photos.
Yes. Yes, I am.
And there are still more on the way.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 6.29.2024
dust to dust
It does seem sort of ludicrous that a building material made of mud and straw can durable enough to last hundreds of years. And it’s also ludicrous that over time it just melts back into the earth it originally came from.
But the best part about all of this is the way these walls, as they gradually melt away, begin to take on the shapes of the surrounding mountains.
Santa Rosa de Lima ruins
Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2024
One Day | One Image 