Nambe Cemetery
Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico
Karen Rivera
January 2011
I shoot a lot of cemetaries. For heart-rending, technicolor boisterous displays, you just can’t beat a New Mexican cemetary on Easter, Day of the Dead or Christmas. I’ve made it to my favorite, the Nambe Church cemetary in Nambe, every Boxing Day for most of the last 20 years. I follow that up with New Year’s Day in Acoma. It seems to make the perfect emotional double-header.
I found this small, weathered cross tucked away in a far corner surrounded by tumbleweeds and scruffy dead plants. The new flowers shows that this lonely hidden grave hadn’t been forgotten.
July 4, 2011 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Churches, Community, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, Nambe, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Religious Art, Shrine, Story Crosses, Traditional Crosses, Village Churches, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Adobe Church, Art, Carved Cross, Carved Wooden Crosses, Cemetery, Cross, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Descansos, Folk Art, Graveyard Crosses, Graveyards, Hand Carved, Hand Painted, Karen Rivera, mission church, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Outdoor Photography by Karen Rivera, Photography, Road Trips, southwest, Southwest Crosses, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
Alley Cross
Dave Siemer 2010
Crosses are everywhere you look, even in an alley in a small town in Oregon.
July 4, 2011 | Categories: Architectural Crosses, Art, Artists, Christian, Christian Photography, Churches, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, Dave Siemer Photography, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Iron Crosses, Oregon, Ornate Crosses, Religious Art, Traditional Crosses, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Christian, Churches, Cross, Cross of the Day, David Siemer, Inspirational Photography, Iron Cross, Old Churches, Oregon | Leave a comment
Church Tower with Cross, Chimayo
Chimayo, New Mexico
Karen Rivera 2007
November 18, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Chimayo, Churches, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Graveyard Crosses, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Sanctuario, Santa Fe, Shrine, Traditional Crosses, Village Churches, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Abobe Churches, Cemetery Crosses, Chimayo, Church Tower, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Hand Carved, Karen Rivera, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Old Churches, Photography, Road Trip, Sanctuario, Village Churches | Leave a comment
Punta de Agua
Highway 55, Southern New Mexico
Karen Rivera
The small villages along Highway 55 have always held a special place in my hard-scrabble New Mexican heart. Using the few resources available in the barren, harsh acres early settlers recycled the ever-present rocks into homes, walls, and churches.
In Punta de Agua, the rough-cut stone San Antonio Church stands as a monument to an earlier example of sustainable and green building.
If you’d like to walk through Punta de Agua at street level, click here to go to Google Maps, then click satellite.
November 16, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Churches, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Graveyard Crosses, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Santos, Southern New Mexico, Spirituality, Stone Churches, Traditional Crosses | Tags: Architectural Detail, Blue Doors, Churches, Classic Churches, Classic Mountains, Classics, Cross of the Day, Crosses, Hand Carved, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Manzano, Mission Churches, Mountainair, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Outdoor Photography, Patron Saints, Photography, Religious Art, Road Signs, Road Trips, Saints and Martyrs, San Antonio, Santos, Scenic View, Stone Churches, Village Churches, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
Four Corners Baskets
Zia Pueblo
July 2010
Karen Rivera
Local Native American Basket Makers incorporate the designs of crosses, native plants, mountains and rivers into their wonderful baskets. Made of raw reeds and natural dyes, the basketmakers weave spirituality into their art.
July 21, 2010 | Categories: Art, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Heart Crosses, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Native American, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Rustic Crosses, Sandoval County, Spirituality, Traditional Crosses | Tags: Baskets, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Hand Woven Baskets, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, New Mexican Photography, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Photograpy, Religious Art, Road Trip, Spirituality, Zia Pueblo | Leave a comment
Nuestra Nuestra Senora de Los Dolores de Manzano
Manzano, New Mexico
Karen Rivera
February 28, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Black Iron Crosses, Churches, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Madonna, Mother of God, Mountain Churches, New Mexico Photography, Our Lady of Sorrows, Patron Saints, Saints and Martyers, Southern New Mexico, Traditional Crosses | Tags: Abobe Churches, Black Iron, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Graveyard Crosses, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Manzano, New Mexico, Nuestra Senora de Los Dolores de Manzano, Patron Saints, Southern New Mexico, Village Churches | Leave a comment
Andreita Avila’s Cross
Our Lady of Sorrows Cemetery
Bernalillo, New Mexico
kd sebastian 21010
There’s something so touching about handmade grave markers. Many of the cemeteries in New Mexico have suffered from vandalism and neglect. Families die out, move away or simply abandon the traditional New Mexican ways.
My favorite crosses are what I call the “hard times” crosses: handmade from whatever durable materials could be afforded. Rebar, cement, wood, rocks–everything is fair game and free. Oddly enough, the poorer the community, the better kept the graveyards are.
Andreita Avila’s Cross is on the left side of Our Lady of Sorrows Graveyard in Bernalillo, New Mexico. It’s proximity to the Placitas off-ramp has made it a vandal’s dream so it was heart-warming to find this small pocket size memorial exactly where it was placed years ago.
February 22, 2010 | Categories: Art, Cemetery Crosses, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Free Clipart Crosses, Graveyard Crosses, Inspirational Photography, k.d. sebastian, Karen Rivera, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Our Lady of Sorrows, Patron Saints, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Sandoval County, Traditional Crosses | Tags: Andreita Avila's Cross, Cemetery Crosses, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Free Cross Clipart, Graveyard Crosses, Hard times Crosses, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, kdsebastian, New Mexico, Our Lady of Sorrows, Patron Saints | Leave a comment
Alley Cross
Four Corners Baskets
Nuestra Nuestra Senora de Los Dolores de Manzano
Andreita Avila’s Cross