There has been a "For Sale" sign in the window of these adobe ruins on US-285 in Encino, New Mexico for several years. It was there when I lived in Santa Fe, four year before I made this photograph during my visit to New Mexico in 2011. I'm sure they're really selling the land for redevelopment, but it looks funny seeing a sign like that in the window of a building that has fallen apart so completely that only the front wall and doors remain!

The abandoned cafe with the 99 cent breakfast is visible through the window.

I had visited this town four years earlier, but did not get to do much photography because of bad weather. I didn't make it back there before I had to move back to Indiana. I took advantage of my time in New Mexico when I drove out there in August, 2011 to go back to Encino. It is a tiny, nearly abandoned town, with many interesting places.

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