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Please pay
Meanwhile, back in Santa Rosa, the paint’s so faded on the sign that it’s hard to tell where, exactly, you’d go to pay for your gas. But it doesn’t matter: neither the gas station nor anything in the direction of that arrow are still in business.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
Fresh, hot coffee
I am positive that there IS a place to get fresh, hot coffee in Santa Rosa. But I am just as positive that this isn’t it.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
Sale or trade
It’s really no secret to anyone who’s been around the blog for very long that I have a fondness for Santa Rosa, New Mexico…
Many years ago, I made quite a few trips between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas; at that time all I knew about Santa Rosa was that was where to turn (right, heading to Lubbock; left, to Albuquerque). I never drove through town, a fact which is sort of embarrassing to admit. In recent years, my family have taken up scuba diving and (this doesn’t even sound right), there’s a place to dive in Santa Rosa. These days, I tag along on as many scuba trips as I can; while the divers are diving, I am exploring. The old Route 66 is a treasure of abandoned buildings (mostly gas stations, now usurped by big chain stations-with-convenience-stores over on the interstate.)
For the five years or so that I’ve been photographing Santa Rosa, the fluorescent lights inside the service bay at this old Exxon station have been on. I don’t know why. Maybe to illuminate that Sale or Trade sign. Just in case.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
All rectangles (nearly)
Here’s another photo that’s mostly rectangles – only that row of weeds breaks the pattern.
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.23.14
(not a) church
Down along the river (which hard to think of as an international border, even though it is), there’s a movie set.
So, at best, this is just a fake church….
near Lajitas, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
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