This old abandoned cemetery is out on a farm road behind our house in Texas. It’s something I’ve passed by a thousand times and never really given much thought to.  It’s run down, dusty, and the grave markers and headstones have faded, and corroded from the weather.

Weeds have grown around the graves and the walls have cracked. Still, there’s something beautiful about it.

But something made me stop the other day and take these photos. It was something about the clouds that day that caught my attention, and I loved the way that they were framed by the mission arch in the black and white photo below.

The mountains you see in the background are Mexico.