Midday sun and a cemetery. Not the textbook combination certainly, but I went anyway. Not because the light was ideal, but because that’s when I was there. Walking through a cemetery in the middle of the day, the light is blunt and unromantic. Nothing is softened; it isn't cinematic. Every crack, every patch of lichen, every letter carved is exposed. It's honest. It's real. Midday doesn’t hide anything. It shows age plainly. Memory after the last visit. Color against winter

About forty minutes from Tucumcari, on the way home, sits Glenrio, a state-line ghost town with a population of zero and more character than many places still full of people. I visited Glenrio during my New Mexico vacay of 2024 and it was wonderful to return! Glenrio is... a weathered apocalyptic landscape, dense, like a storm-before-the-storm. I love it. I’ve watched YouTube videos of people visiting Glenrio over the years, and the graffiti tells its own timeline, layered

Time to head back to Kansas! But first, some Tucumcari photos. Tucumcari, New Mexico has many abandoned and dilapidated buildings on display - a moody, haunted photographer's dream. Abandoned places that look like they whisper at night. This feels like a town with enough layers to reveal something new every time you return. And return I will.