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4 fleurs de lis
From the looks of things, there was a problem with people climbing over the fence, so those fleurs de lis were added. But – were the people trying to get in, or get out?
Sacred Heart Catholic Mission Church
Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
Priest’s Door
I’m just guessing, of course, that this door on the side of the church is the way the priest gets in. What I’d like to know, though, is what the deal is with those flowers on the windowsill…
Sacred Heart Catholic Mission Church
Shafter, Texas
photographed 11.4.2017
Clouds overhead were ghostly gray
It’s unusual to see cloudy skies out here. These kinds of clouds, anyway – low gray ones that hang around all day. In the summer, it’s not uncommon to have thunderclouds build up and quickly dissipate.
But how about the way the lighter shapes in the clouds echo the shape of the shrubbery by the stairs?
Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
Museum in progress
I first visited this little ghost-town museum in November 2017; I don’t think one thing had changed between then and my return visit a year later. Evidently ghosts are pretty slow at building finish-out.
Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
Her death became a prison
View from inside a cemetery shrine, constrained by the bars on the glass-free window.
Shafter, Texas
photographed 12.22.2018
