Photography – A Sense of Place

A Sense of Las Cruces…

I spent time at two of Las Cruces’ top coffee spots over the course of a weekend. What I found was most of what you’d expect. Nothing extraordinary or anything that would change the course of a history textbook. But what I did observe was a sense of place, funnily enough.

Las Cruces, New Mexico has its unique sleepy-little-town aura that can either trap you or enchant you, depending on how you feel about it.

Like I said, there was nothing extraordinary in these shops, only what you find in any coffee shop around the world: People reading, doing computer work, the rush in the mornings. But it’s the locality of these places that make it special and worthy of documenting. The plants that you can’t find elsewhere, the people, the stories.

This is Grounded Cafe and Milagro Coffee Y Espresso.

Burlap coffee bean bags line the back walls and along the exposed steel ceilings inside
Milagro Coffee Y Espresso, Las Cruces, NM.
Tea-drinking-red-rain-boot-wearing woman waiting for her drink inside Milagro Coffee Y Espresso, Las Cruces, NM. It rained this day, a light rain. Streets puddled quickly.
A typical warm autumn day in Las Cruces, the sunlight grazes the stone-laid walls outside of Grounded Cafe. Southwestern plants thrive in the year-round heat.
Ocotillo shadow stands still against earth-toned walls outside of Milagro Coffee Y Espresso.
Red-headed man dives into a new world under a shade tree on the patio of Grounded Cafe.
This photographers favorite smile. Sunny day. Another perfect date. Grounded Cafe.
The center fountain, the crowning jewel, on the patio of Grounded Cafe.
Children make wishes here.

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January 24, 2025 by original media ramblings