( Walt, April Lourdes, Muley Point, 1995 )

Hey Walt

Meet you at the Cowboy Motel

there's a vacancy

and it's not just in my heart.

or maybe we could meet here

in the wide open landscape that you loved...

or down a dirt road,

by the red rocks

playing country music on the radio.

or at a rock shop

like the kind you taught me once to love.

( beth & stella, muley point, photo mick sanders )

there are so many pieces of you 

scattered around our heartstrings...

and today we remember you.

Walter Earl Cotten

2 August 1946 - 12 February 2008

photographer, friend, muse

we miss you...

( walter, lourdes & april, muley point, photo michael byrne)

on the anniversary of your departure...

walter earl cotten









sometimes we still look for him

in the sky...







we remember that night






but mostly all the days before it...













never did far away seem so close
























dear walt...we are all still missing you





walt cotten

2 august 1946 - 12 febraury 2008

photos by jeffery bishop, lourdes gomez, paul redmond, beth nelson, claire putney, siobhan arnold, michael byrne