Melinda Green Harvey
@melgal.bsky.social
writer/photographer/wise-ass
See my current project here: https://melindagreenharvey.com/looking-at-people/
See my current project here: https://melindagreenharvey.com/looking-at-people/
I don’t know what a
“ness” is; am hard pressed to call
this a city, so…
Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
“ness” is; am hard pressed to call
this a city, so…
Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I don’t know what a
“ness” is; am hard pressed to call
this a city, so…
Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
“ness” is; am hard pressed to call
this a city, so…
Ness City, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024
Right about where the road is closed due to lingering danger from the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Creek forest fires, there’s a little church settled into the trees. You probably can’t even see it unless you’ve already gone to the end and had to turn around.
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Right about where the road is closed due to lingering danger from the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Creek forest fires, there’s a little church settled into the trees. You probably can’t even see it unless you’ve already gone to the end and had to turn around.
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
Right about where the road is closed due to lingering danger from the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Creek forest fires, there’s a little church settled into the trees. You probably can’t even see it unless you’ve already gone to the end and had to turn around.
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Right about where the road is closed due to lingering danger from the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Creek forest fires, there’s a little church settled into the trees. You probably can’t even see it unless you’ve already gone to the end and had to turn around.
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
El Pornevir, New Mexico
11.11.2025
In the dark of night
I stepped inside the graveyard
and felt not a thing.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #graveyard
I stepped inside the graveyard
and felt not a thing.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #graveyard
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In the dark of night
I stepped inside the graveyard
and felt not a thing.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #graveyard
I stepped inside the graveyard
and felt not a thing.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #graveyard
Twenty years in and
I am still waiting for this
hut to fall over.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.2.2024
I am still waiting for this
hut to fall over.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.2.2024
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Twenty years in and
I am still waiting for this
hut to fall over.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.2.2024
I am still waiting for this
hut to fall over.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.2.2024
My good friend (and outstanding photographer) R. David Marks took a photo of this clown several years ago, only the clown was further back in the store. At some point, he (it?) crept closer to that shelf of meat grinders. I fear what might happen next…
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.8.2025
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.8.2025
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My good friend (and outstanding photographer) R. David Marks took a photo of this clown several years ago, only the clown was further back in the store. At some point, he (it?) crept closer to that shelf of meat grinders. I fear what might happen next…
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.8.2025
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.8.2025
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The place was in a bit of disrepair but the colors were nice.
This block of Douglas Avenue has two pretty good places to eat – Charlie’s Spic Bakery and Span Café (huevos rancheros!) and Dick’s Pub and Restaurant (posole!!). In case you’re hungry.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
This block of Douglas Avenue has two pretty good places to eat – Charlie’s Spic Bakery and Span Café (huevos rancheros!) and Dick’s Pub and Restaurant (posole!!). In case you’re hungry.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The place was in a bit of disrepair but the colors were nice.
This block of Douglas Avenue has two pretty good places to eat – Charlie’s Spic Bakery and Span Café (huevos rancheros!) and Dick’s Pub and Restaurant (posole!!). In case you’re hungry.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
This block of Douglas Avenue has two pretty good places to eat – Charlie’s Spic Bakery and Span Café (huevos rancheros!) and Dick’s Pub and Restaurant (posole!!). In case you’re hungry.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
Centrifugal Force
Death Machine sprouting in a
field full of stickers.
Haswell, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2024
#haiku #17syllables #poetry
Death Machine sprouting in a
field full of stickers.
Haswell, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2024
#haiku #17syllables #poetry
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Centrifugal Force
Death Machine sprouting in a
field full of stickers.
Haswell, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2024
#haiku #17syllables #poetry
Death Machine sprouting in a
field full of stickers.
Haswell, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2024
#haiku #17syllables #poetry
I would have preferred for the church to have been unlocked.
But since it wasn’t, I had to resort to my familiar shoot-through-the-window-and-see-what’s-there technique. In this case it was a glass candleholder, with a bugged-topped candle.
Garita, New Mexico
photographed 11.11.2025
But since it wasn’t, I had to resort to my familiar shoot-through-the-window-and-see-what’s-there technique. In this case it was a glass candleholder, with a bugged-topped candle.
Garita, New Mexico
photographed 11.11.2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I would have preferred for the church to have been unlocked.
But since it wasn’t, I had to resort to my familiar shoot-through-the-window-and-see-what’s-there technique. In this case it was a glass candleholder, with a bugged-topped candle.
Garita, New Mexico
photographed 11.11.2025
But since it wasn’t, I had to resort to my familiar shoot-through-the-window-and-see-what’s-there technique. In this case it was a glass candleholder, with a bugged-topped candle.
Garita, New Mexico
photographed 11.11.2025
•flagged•
The only thing I know about these flags at the cemetery entrance is that they were not there in February 2024, when the Google car drive by.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #newmexico
The only thing I know about these flags at the cemetery entrance is that they were not there in February 2024, when the Google car drive by.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #newmexico
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
•flagged•
The only thing I know about these flags at the cemetery entrance is that they were not there in February 2024, when the Google car drive by.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #newmexico
The only thing I know about these flags at the cemetery entrance is that they were not there in February 2024, when the Google car drive by.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #newmexico
Any time we go through Santa Rosa, New Mexico, we have to stop at the Blue Hole, a place where you can go scuba diving.
Someone has a strong need to stand by the water and gaze upon it, sigh heavily, and wax nostalgic.
During this ritual I go to the restroom.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
11.8.2025
Someone has a strong need to stand by the water and gaze upon it, sigh heavily, and wax nostalgic.
During this ritual I go to the restroom.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
11.8.2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Any time we go through Santa Rosa, New Mexico, we have to stop at the Blue Hole, a place where you can go scuba diving.
Someone has a strong need to stand by the water and gaze upon it, sigh heavily, and wax nostalgic.
During this ritual I go to the restroom.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
11.8.2025
Someone has a strong need to stand by the water and gaze upon it, sigh heavily, and wax nostalgic.
During this ritual I go to the restroom.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
11.8.2025
Usually those
center pivots are on the
other side of field.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook
center pivots are on the
other side of field.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Usually those
center pivots are on the
other side of field.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook
center pivots are on the
other side of field.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook
I don’t know: it just struck me as a photo-in-waiting. You know, the ways things do sometimes.
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #onedayoneimage #restarea #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #onedayoneimage #restarea #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I don’t know: it just struck me as a photo-in-waiting. You know, the ways things do sometimes.
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #onedayoneimage #restarea #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2025
#thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #onedayoneimage #restarea #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
Here’s some Catholic
stuff, seen and photographed by
a lapsed Methodist.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Villanueva, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee
stuff, seen and photographed by
a lapsed Methodist.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Villanueva, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Here’s some Catholic
stuff, seen and photographed by
a lapsed Methodist.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Villanueva, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee
stuff, seen and photographed by
a lapsed Methodist.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Villanueva, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee
I cannot speak to the information on the sign on the left.
But I did enjoy the way the Fire Victims sign seems to have elbowed its way into the discussion.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
But I did enjoy the way the Fire Victims sign seems to have elbowed its way into the discussion.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot speak to the information on the sign on the left.
But I did enjoy the way the Fire Victims sign seems to have elbowed its way into the discussion.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
But I did enjoy the way the Fire Victims sign seems to have elbowed its way into the discussion.
Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
If you’re missing some
bags full of who-knows-what, I
think I have found them.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
bags full of who-knows-what, I
think I have found them.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you’re missing some
bags full of who-knows-what, I
think I have found them.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
bags full of who-knows-what, I
think I have found them.
Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive #fujifilm #fujifilmXT5 #fujilove
•sixty nine years in the grave•
Isabelita was fifty when she died; her tiny three-crossed marker lives on surrounded by tall grasses, mountains, and New Mexico’s skies.
unnamed cemetery
near Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
Isabelita was fifty when she died; her tiny three-crossed marker lives on surrounded by tall grasses, mountains, and New Mexico’s skies.
unnamed cemetery
near Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
•sixty nine years in the grave•
Isabelita was fifty when she died; her tiny three-crossed marker lives on surrounded by tall grasses, mountains, and New Mexico’s skies.
unnamed cemetery
near Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
Isabelita was fifty when she died; her tiny three-crossed marker lives on surrounded by tall grasses, mountains, and New Mexico’s skies.
unnamed cemetery
near Mora, New Mexico
photographed 11.9.2025
The night was so calm
that water transformed itself
to mirrored surface.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
that water transformed itself
to mirrored surface.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The night was so calm
that water transformed itself
to mirrored surface.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
that water transformed itself
to mirrored surface.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
I was unprepared to take a soak in the hot springs but I wandered down the path to the first set of springs. And that’s where I spotted this message carved into the concrete. It gave me a good feeling about the place.
Montezuma, New Mexico
photographed 11.10.2025
Montezuma, New Mexico
photographed 11.10.2025
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I was unprepared to take a soak in the hot springs but I wandered down the path to the first set of springs. And that’s where I spotted this message carved into the concrete. It gave me a good feeling about the place.
Montezuma, New Mexico
photographed 11.10.2025
Montezuma, New Mexico
photographed 11.10.2025
Yes, I did draw a sauce-bird at dinner.
Ken Chan Ramen
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.16.2025
#art #saucebird
Ken Chan Ramen
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.16.2025
#art #saucebird
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Yes, I did draw a sauce-bird at dinner.
Ken Chan Ramen
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.16.2025
#art #saucebird
Ken Chan Ramen
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.16.2025
#art #saucebird
Bright churches in the
sun will draw the attention
of photographers.
Shrine of the Stations of the Cross
San Luis, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
sun will draw the attention
of photographers.
Shrine of the Stations of the Cross
San Luis, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Bright churches in the
sun will draw the attention
of photographers.
Shrine of the Stations of the Cross
San Luis, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive
sun will draw the attention
of photographers.
Shrine of the Stations of the Cross
San Luis, Colorado
photographed 9.3.2024
#haiku #poetry #taketimetolook #taketimetosee #thingsisee #reasonstostop #learningtosee #thoughtfulseeing #thepoetryofphotography #fivesevenfive