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It’s time to vote!
I am happy to announce that my photo “In a Ghost Town Do Ghosts Go to Church” is one of ten finalists in the Digital Lightroom’s on-line photography competition.
If you have time, follow the link and vote! (If you just can’t bring yourself to vote for my photo, please vote for my friend’s photograph “Park Lookout.”)
Thanks!
Terlingua cross: back and front
The back of a long-armed cross in another shot from the Terlingua cemetery.
And, because I think you want to know what the other side looks like:
This might be a good time to mention that, in addition to looking in alleys for things to photograph, I also like to walk behind things, too. Many times, I like the backs better.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
Veterans for Peace
While most of the graves at the Terlingua cemetery are from the 1930s and 40s, there are some newer ones. Like this one, with its Veterans for Peace badge.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
Slide: Terlingua
Maybe the saddest thing in Terlingua is this broken down slide. The sharp branches of winter-dormant plants crowd against the slide’s striped slope, which ends at a large rock. The only tree in sight would do nothing to block the sun, which would heat the metal slide to dangerous levels in the summer.
It looks like lost dreams.
But maybe it doesn’t matter: it’s a ghost town, after all.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
Dry ground, wood crosses
Approximately a million miles from anywhere (my estimate) lies the Terlingua ghost town. It’s a relic of long-gone quicksilver mines. But it also has the Starlight Theater, hosts the Terlingua International Chili Championship, and was referenced in the title of Jerry Jeff Walker’s famous album ¡Viva Terlingua!, which was released in 1973.
That’s kind of a lot, for a ghost town.
It also has a cemetery, where most of the markers – the ones that are still legible, anyway – date back to the town’s mining days in the early part of the last century. Most of the graves have jars or bottles that hold candles; I had a sense that ghostly visitors come at night, moving from grave to grave, lighting candles as they go. I would like to see it on a starry night – maybe the ghosts will be there, too.
Terlingua, Texas
photographed 1.20.2013
Note 1: See the people in the photo on the Starlight Theater link? I think almost the very same people were there the day I was….
Note 2: Seriously, 1973? How old am I that I actually bought a copy. When it came out. On vinyl. In 1973.
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