Exploring

On another day, we drove in the opposite direction for a different type of exploration – visiting places we’d been before to get a different perspective.

We’ve seen this cabin several times, as it’s along a well-traveled road in the area.  However, each time we pass it, it seems to add to its story of days gone by, and abandonment.  The porch is falling apart a bit more, and the roof over the porch is sagging each time we see it.  I wonder how long until it collapses upon itself.

Just beyond the cabin, are two buildings.  The first one, an adobe structure, is truly beginning to fall into itself.  I am guessing, but I think it might have been a stable, of sorts, when the cabin was thriving and there were livestock to keep.  The second is more of a traditional wood barn, and I’m imagining that it was perhaps a storage barn of some sort, holding farm equipment and tools.

As we drove along another dirt road, we would periodically travel close to a creek or stream.  It wasn’t very big, yet it offered a lovely reflection photo of the greenery growing along its banks.  I was quite surprised by this, as the running water of a stream/creek, doesn’t often lend itself to these types of images.  The second image is of a wider area along this same creek or stream.  It seems to be somewhat of a bog here.  Perhaps that occurred because in a couple of places, Jeff could see a beaver dam.  Maybe the water found a new path around the dams after they were built.

There were some pretty purple sort of daisy type flowers all along the roadside.  I think they might be asters.  In any event, there were some lovely images to be had.  Can you see the bee in the image with the quote?

And, finally a perfect dandelion!  With the breezes that blow in New Mexico, it’s not often one comes across these!  I thought the quote captures the idea of the passage of time, which I always think of when I see a dandelion gone to seed.

Enjoy!