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The View-Framers

The window frames in the melting adobe building help frame up the view, which is quite accommodating of them.

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

No plausible reason

At the end of a building that we decided had been the town school, an extremely random assortment of stuff bakes in the sun. At some point, presumably, there were reasons why that van and that clothesline and that bundle of wire coexisted. But that reason’s gone. Or at least not readily discernible to a pair of photographers.

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

It was a barbed-wire life


Every single thing in this scene points to a life that’s been lived on a hard and unforgiving edge.

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018

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