Continuing with my dersert travels I divert from my usual photographic fare, but perhaps it is not that far off. Last week, I recounted my experience in Terlingua, TX during Día De Los Muertos. That same day, five hour perhaps before I walked under that field of stars and luminous graves, I embarked on a short hike. Taking a tip from a local, I set out on a dirt that path that took me past the famous Perry Mansion, once the estate of the Terlinqua quicksilver tycoon, Howard E

Many ancient cultures believe that when the body dies the soul rises to the heavens and joins the stars. Late on the night of November 2nd, Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, I wandered through the little cemetery of Terlingua, TX. Terlingua is a ghost town, barely an hour from the Mexico border formed in the late 1800s when elemental quicksilver was discovered under the red, dusty rocks of the desert valley. The miners and their families that occupied Terlingua were larg