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ever rest

I might have stayed a little longer to work some things out on this composition, but the (very) nearby dog sort of indicated that perhaps I had already overstayed my welcome.

(I have what I hope is a completely irrational fear that loose, barking/snarling dogs fully intend to eat one or more of my legs.)

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024

privacy curtain

You know how sometimes you pull into a little town and it seems friendly and you think about stopping for lunch or a coffee so you can have little bit of time chatting with the locals? And then later you check VBRO because it seems like maybe you’d like to go back for a long weekend and you wonder what your options are?

This town is…not that sort of place.

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024

decorative water

You could hear this little fountain before you could see it. Or photograph it, as far as that goes.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 9.2.2024

roadside jesus

There were two or three people out that day, wearing yellow safety vests and cleaning up litter from the roadside. If my memory is correct, that section of the highway had been adopted in memory of someone; it’s reasonable to assume the people I saw were related to the in-memory-of person.

Anyway, this wagon was partly filled with some of the larger trash they’d picked up that day.

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024

el martinez service

I’ve been this place a lot of times but never even gave it a second glance. So maybe I missed seeing when it was open, seeing what the local customers were doing.

Or maybe, it’s been closed so long that if I had noticed it before now it would have looked approximately like this.

(Reason 1 to go back over and over to the same place.)

Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 9.3.2024