Framedlight

Before we went on the trip, Anne had bought a secondhand, very dogeared book about ghost towns in New Mexico. One of those mentioned in the book was Organ, a scattering of a few houses, some of which had fallen into decrepitude, along the main highway leading north east out of Las Cruces. The Organ Mountains lay close to the south of the settlement and the San Andrés Mountains some way off to the north. We pulled off the highway onto a dirt road and parked up on what we at first thought was waste ground. It turned out to be the graveyard, the first hint of which was a few plastic flowers on the ground. Thankfully we had parked in a little turn off and not on a grave, and we spent some time wandering around the dry and dusty plot which was strewn with cacti. The graveyard was aptly named the Slumbering Mountain Cemetery (patent date February 26 1885). I also took some pictures of the sad buildings which were crumbling alongside the road.