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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
Long’s Cemetery on the long horizon
The other weekend, I met up with a photographer friend in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is one of my favorite towns to photograph. But on the way I took some back roads that were new to me. Which is how I found this little cemetery – a mile down a dirt road and thousands of miles from anywhere.
Long’s Cemetery
near Rogers, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2018
Going back to go forward
At some point, this building will become the new city hall – or Citizens Tower, which I suppose is a fancier way to say the same thing.
The City of Lubbock is posting “monthly” updates on the construction progress, which seems like an effort to be more “transparent” and to “not piss off everyone in town over the $46 million price tag.” Interestingly, though, the “monthly” updates haven’t been posted since December. Whatever that means…
But on the other hand, it’s nice that there’s a big renovation project going on downtown.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.20.2018
History was made here
The stone arch that serves as the park’s entrance was built in 1937-8 by the National Youth Administration. Beside the gate there’s an historical marker outlining the history of the park. Among other things, it says that in 1884, Colonel John Henry Moore “wiped out” a nearby Comanche village, which I guess was an OK way to phrase it when the sign was written in 1970…
Ruddick Park
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.17.2018
