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Varied Menu Options
If you can get to town before this place closes (we didn’t make it because *someone* had to stop too many times to make photos), there is a wide variety of menu options to choose from. I would have probably ordered up a snow cone to go with my steak – I’ll have to leave Lubbock earlier the next time, I guess.
Tatum, New Mexico
photographed 5.22.2021
Sometimes the way will be blocked
A tiny shrine, with believers held at bay with a rope: a reminder that sometimes our way will be blocked.
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
photographed 4.25.2021
The Thing
Were you looking for this thing? Because I found it over in New Mexico the other day.
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
photographed 4.25.2021
Building Permit and the Madonna
That’s a building permit taped into the window next to the madonna. The permit’s from a least a decade ago – it’s almost too faded to read but I was able to make out a few things: new roof, new ceiling, new floor, new plumbing were all listed. I am reasonably sure that none of those things have been done. I am less sure that there even still is a roof, actually.
Idalou, Texas
photographed 5.16.2021
Sunlight Rained Down
High thin clouds diffused the sunlight that was spilling onto the cemetery.
Selected for its healthful climate, the nearby installation of Fort Stanton served as a tuberculosis hospital for the Merchant Marines, hosting some 5,000 sailor patients between 1899 and 1953, 1,500 of whom are buried here in this desert location.
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
photographed 4.25.2021
One Day | One Image 