Odessa Meteor Crater

So, I went to the Odessa Meteor Crater. If you were picturing a dramatic, smoking hole in the earth where a fiery space rock dramatically rearranged the West Texas landscape a few thousand years ago, congratulations, you’ve successfully ruined your own afternoon.

It’s basically a shallow depression in a flat field, surrounded by some scrub brush. If you drove past it at fifty miles an hour, you would assume it was just a really lazy drainage ditch or where someone tried to dig a stock tank and gave up halfway through.

There’s a sign that explains how a bunch of iron meteorites hit the dirt a long time ago.

I walked the main path, felt a mild breeze, and decided I had experienced enough cosmic wonder for one day. Still, under the wide sky, there’s a quiet gratitude for the unhurried passage of time.

Portra 160, Noritsu, 50mm