Drove through this little town out on the eastern edge of New Mexico
in the landscape shared with the western reaches of west Texas.
I don’t know if it would be considered a ghost town yet
because it still had signs of life and routine things occurring.
Looking around though you could see that once upon a time there
were railroad operations, cattle men, hardware and implement dealers.
Hotels, restaurants, cattleman's bars, rail workers bars and
somewhere within stumbling distance, a brothel or two.
A rough side and a civic minded side all playing out around
the area where the rails met the town square.
All hard working and hard playing people trying to build a life on the southern Great Plains.
I find what some think of as “Fly Over Country” as some of the most
interesting places in America so when you stop to look and imagine what was…
you might start to see the ghosts too.

Elida, New Mexico

Reflections ~ April Scavenger Hunt
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