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Long’s Cemetery on the long horizon
The other weekend, I met up with a photographer friend in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is one of my favorite towns to photograph. But on the way I took some back roads that were new to me. Which is how I found this little cemetery – a mile down a dirt road and thousands of miles from anywhere.
Long’s Cemetery
near Rogers, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2018
Illuminations
Remember yesterday, when I posted my first-ever photo of Moriarty, New Mexico?
Here’s what I saw in the (gigantic) parking lot of a fireworks stand. See how those flags and banners are held by the wind? And see the puddles in the parking lot? That, plus the fact that I had an absolutely inappropriate coat will explain why I didn’t stay very long in Moriarty. But at least I got off the highway, finally, and looked around.
Moriarty, New Mexico
photographed 2.15.2018
No ID?
I had a work trip last month, a couple of days of training in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Flights from Lubbock to Albuquerque are ridiculous, with some of them taking longer than it would take to drive over. So I did the reasonable thing: I drove to Albuquerque. It’s an easy trip from Lubbock and is one I’ve made many times.
But in all those Lbb-Abq drives I had never gotten off the highway in Moriarity, New Mexico, to see what was there.
It was a bit of a jackpot. Pete’s Bar, for example, was quite compelling.
Moriarty, New Mexico
photographed 2.15.2018
The Shady Side
There wasn’t a lot of shade, but there was a little bit beside an abandoned church. The small and infrequent trees didn’t offer much, so it was nice that the building stepped up to help.
Grenville, New Mexico
photographed 8.26.2017
It was a one-star place
Here’s another view of the Texan Motel, which evidently, no matter how hard it tried, was ever only a one-star kind of place.
Raton, New Mexico
photographed 8.27.2017
One Day | One Image 