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Start of the spring thaw
We were there during that time of year when spring and winter overlap – new snow was falling in the mountains but melting at the lower elevations, already causing the streams to run with clear, cold water.
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.
Prairie Window
This old church is the main – some would say only – landmark in Taiban, New Mexico. It’s on the route between home and Albuquerque or Santa Fe, and I stop in nearly every time I’m through town. Last spring, the glassless windows were nice frames for a view of the prairie east of town.
Taiban, New Mexico
photographed 5.25.2018
Modes of modern travel
The American Southwest is dotted with motels that didn’t make it. Travel patterns changed, towns not on the Interstate highway system got smaller, air travel became more affordable, people were in too much of a hurry to even consider an overnight stay in a place like Encino, New Mexico.
And, so, here, the Photography Gods blessed me with an illustration of how all those things impacted the Encino Motel, which could not be saved by new management and/or low rates.
Encino, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2019
