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Patchwork built
It was hard to know if this pattern was the result of someone testing out new color schemes or some graffiti-censoring. (Given the state of the building, I’d guess the latter is more likely.) But either way, I liked how it looked.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Urban forest (sort of)
If a “forest” can be defined as “a group of five or more trees within a metropolitan area” then I guess this might qualify. Even though it’s really just some elm trees that came up on their own – the way elms do – and no one did anything about it. And now, they’re big enough and close enough to the building that there’s probably some foundation damage. But I don’t think anyone cares about that, either.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Turns a blind eye
Whatever it was that used to be lit at night now stands in darkness, as the light fixture turns a blind eye…
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Fade away
The Pecos Valley Industrial Supply Company seems to have faded away, except for the shadow of a sign that’s on the brick wall. This building was empty and Google can’t find it anywhere else.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Lighted entry
There’s just something about New Mexico – the color palette that is favored on painted surfaces, the desert light, the way the dry air and hot summers bake the color off of wood – that I find particularly attractive.
And, then, when you can add in cracked stucco and an old light above an entry…
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
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