Descanso Road Side

This is a descanso on Highway 42 south of Willard. It is under a tree at a roadside table. It is really different that any other site I have visited. I am assuming it is made of materials that were left at the accident scene. Some descansos have accident remains. Those items always seem especially sad and sometimes a little creepy. But the construction of the cross isn't the most interesting thing about the memorial.....


As we were preparing to leave the side of the road, I was looking at the entire area, trying to imagine what might have happened. I looked up in to the tree above the descanso and saw this horse skull looking down at the memorial.



The skull is a really strange element, and I wondered for a moment if the descanso was some kind of joke and then I wondered if the horse was involved in the accident. The purple candles at the base of the cross look to have been burned within the last week. For some reason the candles make me think the memorial is genuine.

This is one of my favorite highways in the state, so I will be stopping by again.