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Discontinuity

This softball field was confusing – a lot of it looked new (especially the part with the heavy earth-moving equipment) (and also the signs warning us to stay of the turf until sometime in April). But then things like holes in the netting around the fields looked as though they’d weathered a few seasons.

But new or old, it still gave the feeling of a portal into the clouds…

Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

The Gate to Heaven

The gate in front of yesterday’s cemetery.

St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

St. Rose, crumbling

Afternoon sun cuts across the old cemetery and chapel in a pleasing fashion. I’ve been here before, but there’s something about the place that just keeps drawing me back. I wonder, though, if it will be as interesting after that building falls down – because it will surely fall.

St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

Long’s Cemetery on the long horizon

The other weekend, I met up with a photographer friend in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is one of my favorite towns to photograph. But on the way I took some back roads that were new to me. Which is how I found this little cemetery – a mile down a dirt road and thousands of miles from anywhere.

Long’s Cemetery
near Rogers, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2018

Rules for all riders

Ticket booths, a truck, and early morning light: the carnival.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.21.2018