23. Maria Martinez and Carmen Leon
La Cienega, Sonora (12/5/02)
Maria Martinez and Carmen Leon at the gate into their yard, in La Cienega. Up until the 1930s La Cienega was a center of gold mining, and had sometimes thousands of working claims. Today only a handful of inhabitants remain -- mostly the very old and very young. The rest have gone to Caborca, or to the US.