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Chinese Restaurant, night

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If you’ve been around this blog for very long, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve seen some other photos of Santa Rosa; it’s one of my favorite locations. The place has a lot going for it: it’s close enough to Lubbock that it’s not a huge deal to get there; my spouse goes there as often as possible to scuba dive (really!) which gives me time to wander around; there’s a huge inventory of derelict structures.

You may recognize this building, which has made a couple of previous appearances here at One Day | One Image: here. And here.

I like the building. I like its very non-PC name. I like that giant canopy. I like…well…I sort of like all of it.

Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.3.2013

Night registration

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I guess when that cross-country drive in the giant motor home gets to be too much, a campground with night registration is a welcome sight. Even if it looks a little ominous.

along Route 66
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.3.2013

Playground

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I feel like maybe this playground and this other one are cousins.

Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013

Scenic, officially

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Sort of makes you wonder, doesn’t it, if the person in charge of sign placement really intended for this abandoned gas station to be the backdrop for a sign proclaiming the town as Officially Scenic.

Or, maybe “scenic” refers to the marker itself, rather than the town…

Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013

A once-grand structure

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Here’s a daytime view of of this building. I really don’t know what it used to be, but whatever it was must have been important…

Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013