
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

Grace Morales, 1893 ~ Graveyard Crosses
Illustration
Karen Rivera 2010
November 16, 2010 | Categories: Art, Cemetery Crosses, Churches, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Descansos, Free Clipart Crosses, Graveyard Crosses, Karen Rivera, Religious Art, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Story Crosses | Tags: Cemetary Crosses, Christian, Cross, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Descansos, Free Cross Clipart, Graveyard Crosses, Illustrations, Karen Rivera, Religious Art, Southwest Crosses | Leave a comment

The Deacon’s Blues
High Road to Taos
New Mexico
July 2010
Karen Rivera
July 22, 2010 | Categories: Art, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Floral Crosses, Folk Art, Hand Carved Crosses, Hand Painted, Inspirational Photography, Irish Crosses, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Rustic Crosses, Spirituality, Story Crosses, Taos | Tags: Cross, Cross of the Day, Descansos, Folk Art, Hand Carved, Hand Painted, High Road to Taos, Inspirational Photography, Irish Crosses, Karen Rivera, New Mexican, New Mexican Photography, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saint, Prayer, Religious Art, Road Trip, Roadside Shrine, Sacred, Saints, Santos, Sculpture, Shrine, St. Lawrence, Taos, Wood | Leave a comment

Saint Ray of Richardsville
Roadside Shrine
Taos, New Mexico
July 2010
Karen Rivera
July 20, 2010 | Categories: Art, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Hand Carved Crosses, Hand Painted, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Rustic Crosses, Saints, Spirituality, Story Crosses, Taos | Tags: Art, Artists, Cross of the Day, Descansos, Folk Art, Hand Carved, Hand Crafted, Hand Painted, High Road to Taos, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Patron Saints, Photography, Recycled, Religious Art, Road Signs, Road Trips, Saints and Martyrs, Santos, Shrine, Signs, Stonework, Taos, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment