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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
church/yard
Adobe + crosses + clouds + a churchyard: a perfect photography day.
San José de Gracia church
Las Tampas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
window saint
This adobe house sits just across the narrow dirt street from the town’s famous church. It seems like it’s close enough to perhaps get by without a window-saint, but the residents evidently felt otherwise.
Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
i have no place left to hide
Seriously, it’s really kind of hard to take a photo that’s not interesting when your travel/photography day includes Northern New Mexico.
I’m not bragging on my mad photography skills at all: it’s not me, but the place. It’s like Photo Magic™.
Santa Rosa de Lima ruins
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2024
