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Clouds overhead were ghostly gray
It’s unusual to see cloudy skies out here. These kinds of clouds, anyway – low gray ones that hang around all day. In the summer, it’s not uncommon to have thunderclouds build up and quickly dissipate.
But how about the way the lighter shapes in the clouds echo the shape of the shrubbery by the stairs?
Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
This is where it gets trippy
I was inside the building, looking at a painting of the outside of it. Art is crazy sometimes.
Valentine, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
Dazzled by the Visions
A leaf-embellished metal grate guards some statues, photos of people for whom prayers have been requested, and one man.
El santuario de Chimayó
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.16.2019
Sky Cross
I’ve been the Chimayó many times, and expect to see crosses everywhere.
Just not in the sky….
El Santuario de Chimayó
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.16.2019
Steeple
Every photographer who ever went to New Mexico has, from the looks of things, photographed this old church. (I’m guilty of it: here, here, here, and as recently as yesterday.)
The poor old thing looks worse every time I pass by, and I know for sure that one of these days, I’ll pull up and it will have fallen all the way over. On my last drive by there, I was traveling alone and my mind wandered around* and eventually settled on this Grand Idea: after the building does fall over, there ought to be a show of all the photographs made of the place. It’d take a big space…
Taiban, New Mexico
photographed 3.14.2019
*Yes, my mind does wander all the time. But a few hours into a solo road trip and it gets even more wandery.
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