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Lot
For a place with nothing going on, this place had a lot of things happening. Also, those lights have been on all all the time at least since May 2013. In case you were wondering…
Santa Rosa, 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
St. Rose, crumbling
Afternoon sun cuts across the old cemetery and chapel in a pleasing fashion. I’ve been here before, but there’s something about the place that just keeps drawing me back. I wonder, though, if it will be as interesting after that building falls down – because it will surely fall.
St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018
In the cradle of the valley’s hand
You have to be going there on purpose, to this tiny town on the banks of the Pecos River south of Santa Rosa. It’s so unknown that Google maps will either direct you to Luna, New Mexico, which isn’t it, or will send you to what looks like more-or-less a random location. The only way I even knew about it was from reading one of those cheerful “Welcome to Santa Rosa” booklets once at a restaurant. (If you want to go, just take South 3rd Street from downtown Santa Rosa. It’ll change names to State Highway 91, County Road 2P, and County Road 3C by the time you get there.
This is the view from a little cemetery on a hill east of town.
Puerta de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 9.21.2013
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