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It looked like the church had had a Valentine’s dinner that weekend and decided the decorations were festive enough to leave up for a few more days.
Cave Creek, Texas
photographed 2.19.2023
fence decor
If you take the back roads, sometimes you’ll end up driving down into a valley with a tiny town at the bottom and that also feels like maybe you drove all the way into another place, another time. And maybe you’ll stop there for an hour or so. And maybe you’ll feel an overwhelming sadness as you leave, knowing you’re returning to the same place, the same time that you’d just left.
Villanueva, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2024
hilltop shrine
If you drive into town from the south, you’ll see this place high on a hill way before you see the town. And then, if you’re like us, you’ll spend kind of a long time trying to figure out how to get there. (Hint: not the way you think.)
And once you get there, you can see this chapel and also enjoy a magnificent view of the San Luis valley.
Shrine of the Stations of the Cross
San Luis, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2024
the cloth on the cross
I don’t know if this rope was placed deliberately to echo the purple cloths that are placed on crosses during Lent, but my mind made the connection.
For whatever that is worth.
Ribero, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.24
at her church
We’d been to the POW chapel, about 25 miles from this church, earlier in the afternoon. It was sad and bleak and was in need of upkeep (but it IS almost 80 years old). But it gave us a space to think about the five Italian prisoners who’d died there, so very far from home.
And in Umbarger, the cool air and the colorful light led us to think about prisoners from that same camp who painted frescoes on the church wall.
It was a day of many contrasts.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Umbarger, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
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