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gate-implied fence

I can’t really decide if the presence of the gate implies a fence or if it’s the other way around. Or if it even matters.

But besides that philosophical situation, here’s a photo that captures the entirety of the town of Inez, New Mexico.

Inez, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025

fire/investigation

A house had burnt down. The only part still completely standing was the chimney, which was how I noticed the place initially. There was a fence but the gate was open, which I took as an invitation to pull off the road and have a look around.

On the south side of the house, away from the road, was a debris field. I saw an oven, a ladle, about a million nails, chunks of melted glass, ashes, bundles of burnt wire, and two cans of paint. There were photographs waiting to made everywhere I looked, and I did what I could to get them all.

near Milnesand, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025

roadside wings

The clouds seem to mirror the wings on the cross, like the spirit of the person has ascended skyward.

Bailey County, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025

hard times had landed

Here’s the latest entry in my long-running practice of shooting photos through dirty windows, just to see what’s inside.

The last time I posted one of these sorts of photos I commented that there is nearly always a water bottle somewhere in the scene. And just because I can’t see one here probably only means that it was there, but wasn’t visible…

Bledsoe, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025

one-half mile

The cemetery was about knee-high in weeds and it’s both snake territory and snake season, so I didn’t walk around. But from what I could see, the number of headstones on the sign is roughly equivalent to the number of graves in the cemetery.

Fun fact: the town and the town’s cemetery are spelled differently.

Roosevelt County, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025