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which way the wind will blow
The weather was changing: winter was on the way.
But it was 70 degrees when I made the photo of a golden weathervane and an abandoned hospital.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 11.29.2025
exam/room
If you’re tall, or can stretch your camera over your head for a photo, you can see inside what I believe to be an exam room of some sort.
The building itself doesn’t have any signage to help me understand what I was seeing and my efforts to sleuth out some details led me nowhere. So, for now, all I know is the place was abandoned and it had a creepy vibe even before I made this picture.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 11.29.2025
church, unused
My traveling partner and I had a discussion about the appropriateness of opening a closed (but not locked) gate to gain access to this abandoned church and similarly disregarded graveyard.
Argument One: It’s a gate. It’s shut. With a chain hooked on it keeping it shut. We should stay out.
Argument Two: The gate also has a sign that says “Please close gate” which implies that someone has granted us permission to, you know, open it.
Anyway, here’s an old church.
near Sapello, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
window treatment
Helpful storage hint: if your closet or your linen closet is too full, consider storing your excess items right in the window. An added benefit is that the stuff that’s been stuffed in the window will help keep the cold winter drafts out of your house!
San Jon, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
ladle + coil
As awful as this fire scene was (was the family at home?) (was anyone hurt?) (what happened to cause the fire?) (how long ago did it happen?), I greatly enjoyed finding that mostly-intact ladle on top of a burned/melted/disfigured stove. It added a bit of mystery on top of all the other questions that came to mind.
near Milnesand, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
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