The winter garden: El Paso, Texas

plastic flowers in Tex. cemetary, C. Highsmith, Library of Congress“Plastic flowers festoon Mt. Carmel Cemetery in El Paso, Texas,” February 2014, by Carol M. Highsmith, via The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The approach

The approach, Chasley, Alabama, an infrared by C. Highsmith, 2010, Library of CongressAn old cabin on the plantation of Chasley, Monroe County, Alabama, May 2010, an infrared photo by Carol M. Highsmith, via The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The banks of Flat Creek

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May 2, 2010, at Flat Creek near Beatrice, Alabama, an infrared photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, via the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

for the creek racks
strongest in springtime when everything’s liquid,
tightroping over the rocks
in the plashing braid. . .

Jonathan Galassi, from “Flow

Cities of the Dead, New Orleans

And so, about this tomb of mine. . .

New Orleans cemetery, 2007, by C. Highsmith

Another beautiful photo by Carol M. Highsmith:  “Cities of the Dead Cemetery tombs, New Orleans, Louisiana,” 2007, via the Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

This tomb is in the Masonic Cemetery in Mid-City.