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A Santa Fe Railroad sign rises from this side of the tracks, a narrow dirt service road between it and the crushed rock trackbed. Closer to you is a medium-sized chamisa swaying in the cold, brisk wind. Its colors are fading as it's late fall, to pale green. Its blooms beginning to turn clay yellow. The earth is the deep red of the Pecos region, and in the distance are some homes from the 1970's. The sky in the far distance is a rich azure, clouds above you are light gray. Just off I-25 is an exit to Rowe and Pecos. Rowe seems to me a high desert Brigadoon. There is age there; there is a sense of living in an amorphous act of Time. There was a day when I took over 800 photographs there, pretty much in one yard, a couple of close friends. This is one of five photographs I've published from that day's shoot. New Mexico has these eddies that you can drive into and need to decompress from 2025, so that you don't get the bends from the altered state of being. Seriously, you can see very old things here, still touch things that existed far before your presence on the Earth, and the Earth will call of things for you to experience, to see, to hear. It's small, and real, and very, very beautiful.
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM