This small cemetery dates from the 1880s. Its occupants reflect the early history of New Mexico -- its first governor and the discoverer of the Mother Lode gold mine are buried here, and so is a deputy sheriff gunned down by the outlaw Billy the Kid. What made this cemetery special for me, however, were the high grasses that enveloped the graves. In the late afternoon light, the grasses bathed the graves in gold and helped me to abstract them. In this image, I photographed these grasses in backlight. Their tiny leaves become a field of floating particles hanging in the air over a pair of graves. The yellow flowers in the urn between the tombstones anchor the image.