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cowboy country
We went out of our way (but not by much) because we’d heard about the deliciousness that is the Steak House. The food was worth the additional 26 miles of driving, but really, those cowboys with their spurs and all were the best part of the stop.
Tatum, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2023
watershed
A pine tree in the cemetery shedding raindrops, or how I used the continuous shooting feature to get what I knew would be there.
Mayhill, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2023
community
This town up in the Sacramento Mountains doesn’t even get a Google street view map: it’s that small.
However, the population DOES seem to be all the way into triple digits, at 112 people. (Up from 98 in 2020, and up from 63 in 2010.)
The World Population Review provides this helpful information about the place: “The average household income in Weed is $0 with a poverty rate of 0%. The median rental costs in recent years comes to – per month, and the median house value is -. The median age in Weed is 0 years, 0 years for males, and 0 years for females.”
All that aside, I can tell you with certainty that there is a community center in town. And at least one bird.
Weed, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2023
new york, new mexico
I had been to Alamogordo before, but never with a camera in my hand. And that meant I had also never strayed even one inch off the highway through town.
This time, though…
Alamogordo, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2023
sad juxtaposition
The cemetery is not in a location that is peaceful. There’s industrial stuff along two sides, a busy city street on another, and Interstate 25 on the other. The embankments that lead to the interstate are dotted with grave markers. And all the way at the very top – just a few feet away from traffic – is the grave of a child. And a sign for PODS storage units.
San José Cemetery
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photographed 5.28.2023
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