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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

fancy lighting

That’s a fancy light fixture they’ve got inside there. I wonder why.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

 

through view

I went to Slaton to get cookies at the 100-year-old Slaton Bakery. (You cannot find better thumbprint cookies anywhere on the planet.) And, while I was there I took a few photos.

Or I went to Slaton to take photos. And while I was there I treated myself to some cookies at the bakery.

Either way, it worked out nicely.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

citrus

Maybe you knew that part of Route 66 went through Chinatown in Los Angeles. I did not know that until fairly recently.

But look! Here’s a truck of citrus!

Chinatown
Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.3.2023