A year earlier, while shooting along with one of my tutorial students in the Westward Ho, built in 1929 as a luxury hotel, and now converted to senior housing, I had photographed some of these same plants outside the building. (See http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/119884048) I returned again one year later with another tutorial student, and decided to shoot these cacti as seen through the windows of a seldom used space that once served as old hotel’s nightclub. The dark interior of the erstwhile Concho Room implies abandonment, while the blinds on its windows add a haunted texture to the scene. Two different worlds are expressed here -- the mysterious past, as well as the ghostly cacti that appear to be crawling towards the windows, hoping to gain admittance.