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like angel wings
I found this little cemetery up the hill from the regular one, which is noted on the map as the Catholic Cemetery. I guess this one is, then, by default, the one for everyone else.
At any rate, the two plastic trash bags looped over the post looked like a pair of droopy angel wings.
unnamed cemetery
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 9.19.2026
beyond my interior walls
I’d been here a while and had already taken all the photos I thought I needed. But then, I sat on the bed of the truck and had lunch, which lined me up with this arrangement. Maybe a normal person would have finished lunch first, but I don’t have any experience being normal. So I (temporarily) abandoned a nice chicken salad sandwich so I could get this shot. First things first, or whatever. The food could – and did – wait.
Santa Rosa de Lima
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 9.19.2026
the place I couldn’t park
If you have always assumed, based on everything that I’ve revealed about myself here, that I probably drive a lowrider…
However, this is my favorite parking-zone sign of all time.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 9.20.2026
stop (and eat)
I’ve driven right by this place before. A lot of times. So I don’t know why this was the trip where I noticed it.
It might have been those clouds over the mountains, making it feel more dramatic. Or the particular arrangement of that car, the waste bin, and traffic barrels. Or maybe it was the sign with the jumbo burger that was indeed jumbo.
The reason doesn’t matter as much as at the fact that I did notice the place and we braved the wonkiest intersection in all of Española to get to the place.
(When I was a kid and we’d drive through Española on the way to our camping vacations in Colorado, it was guaranteed that my dad would get lost. Every. Single. Time. He rarely got lost, but Española always won. Now, as an adult, I think the “It’s Española so I’ll definitely get lost” mindset is winning: as recently as last week, I continued that proud family tradition.)
Española, New Mexico
photographed 9.19.2026
asleep (in jesus)
The way rain in northern New Mexico works is that it comes in hard monsoon-y showers in the summer. Between showers this day (I could hear a lot of thunder), I found puddles and reflections. Oh, and mud.
Catholic Cemetery
Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 9.19.2026
