There are many abandoned trailers and old skeletal buses gathering dust....
Sometimes there's just a lot of stuff around, and some of it's actually quite interesting in terms of color, texture and composition....
And here's a cautionary tale of a trailer that was parked here on the mesa on a north-south axis rather than east to west, allowing the winds to get the better of it. It was apparently going to be a cafe.....
This old pile of tires mirrors the extinct volcano behind it.......
And one simply has to turn the other way and have one's breath taken away......
New Mexico is a land that's rich with minerals, oil, ancient peoples, multiple overlapping cultures, natural splendor, and confusing contradictions. And for us travelers living on the road, we're just soaking it all in.
That trailer accident looks like an expensive mistake. :-(
ReplyDeleteWe've had much less dramatic wind damage to structures we've built--it has us incorporating wind breaks into our long term plans for the farm, to attempt to create areas of stillness even when the wind is howling.
That bus looks like it was converted into a stationary object and then abandoned. I love the layers of history in that photo!
The tire photo, as well, I like mostly on account of the commentary attached to it.