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makeshift
You can tell it’s cattle country when you go in a church and see a stock tank that’s been repurposed to serve as a altar. (A question: do you think the pastor takes Jesus and stuff off the altar, turns it over, and fills it with water so it can be used for baptisms? Or for thirsty church-cows?)
Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
Mondrian goes to church
I believe it is possible that renowned Dutch artist Peet Mondrian (1872-1944) attended church in Nara Visa, New Mexico. Or least helped out with the windows.
Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
something is amiss
Sometimes you work hard to find some kind of a metaphor in a possible photo.
And then other times, the metaphor is just RIGHT THERE on a silo that is falling in on itself, and becoming unstable. It’s probably only a matter of time until the whole thing collapses.
near Friona, Texas
photographed 8.31.2025
but treasures slowly fade
I have a thing for houses that have fallen so far down that I can see all the way through them. I’m not sure why, don’t know where this came from, but you can count on me to give a careful side-eye to every ramshackle house I go by just in case it’s got The View.
And in a shadow of a dead branch, and really, there’s not much else I could even hope for.
Bellview, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
gate-implied fence
I can’t really decide if the presence of the gate implies a fence or if it’s the other way around. Or if it even matters.
But besides that philosophical situation, here’s a photo that captures the entirety of the town of Inez, New Mexico.
Inez, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
One Day | One Image 