Lindley, New York, USA

Why don't we do more work outside? Lots of people say they love the great outdoors, but spend almost no time there. To hot? Too much sun? Looks like the truck makes some shade for the mechanic on duty and protects him from a little rain now and then, too. [2013]

Spade, Texas, USA

We live in an urban world. The rural world has collapsed. The wealth produced in rural domains accrues to urban institutions that manage the work of producing food and fiber with ever more technology and ever fewer people. [2016]

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Of America's 4,000 food trucks, two were stationed at Washington Park one week-day last June. By early afternoon, the lunch crowds had dissipated and the vendors were about to roll out, probably to another destination that promised a market for break-time snacks. Being renovated in the background: Cincinnati Music Hall. [2017]

Taos, New Mexico, USA

Padre Don Antonio Jose Martinez began as a parish priest in Taos and rose from there to become "the most influential Hispano nineteenth-century New Mexico figure." He championed annexation to the United States and served in both houses of the territorial legislature. Today, his memory lives on the Taos plaza. [2017]

Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA

As morning gives way to noon, a group of students prepares to have lunch in the gazebo. Three others, behaving like regulars, have been enjoying the plaza for a while now. It may be the middle of summer, but altitude makes the mercury perfect for outdoor engagements. Las Vegas is well over a mile above sea level. [2017]

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Looking better now than it ever has, the San Miguel mission church is regarded as the oldest church in the United States, dating back to 1610, the year Santa Fe became a provincial capital for the Spanish Crown. That was only a dozen years after El Camino Real had been extended from Mexico City to the northern reaches of the Rio Grande. [2017]

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

San Felipe de Neri Church serves as the Dean of Albuquerque's architectural landscape. It was built in 1793, but its predecessor went back to 1719. Like all Deans, it us used to being the alpha dog, but now it has to share the old plaza with some vintage cars: all quite appropriate for the city's location astride Route 66. [2017]