In July I dashed to New Mexico for a luxurious and fun week with Mary, a friend from the Chicago days (we go wayyy back…). I flew in from Portland and she from Chicago…
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and we met at the airport. After a great dinner and proper toast we headed out of Albuquerque for Mary’s house…
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the weather was beautiful…
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the views were excellent…Image may be NSFW.
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there were gifts…
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good food in famous restaurants…
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and ART! Two excellent shows at the New Mexico Museum of History. One was Pinhole photography which I wanted to see because Ellen’s friend Sarah Van Keuren is a well-known photographer specializing in pinhole photography. On the odd chance there might be a piece of Sarah’s in the show, we went…
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…and it was a beautiful show…
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which in fact DID have a piece of Sarah’s…
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and a quote from Sarah on the wall…
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Next door was a show on the variety of images of the Virgin Mary from Mexico and Central America and this was also a beautiful show proving that we were culturally ignorant and many of the paintings and sculptures dated from the 1600″s and 1700″s…
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and this riveting “Our Lady of Sorrows”
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with some current imagery as well…
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On the way to Santa Fe we stopped to see an amazing bottle arrangement…
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and while there met Leroy…the artist who has spent 10 years adding to this array…
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I noticed a sign for the Cerrillos Historic District and asked for a detour which delighted us both. Cerrillos was a major stop on the turquoise trail…home of three or four major turquoise mines back in the early 20th century…if you’re out that way it is well worth a detour (short) off the highway. Many Italians settled there back in the day…
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and there must still be an Italian around someplace…
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there was also a building under restoration giving a brief visual tutorial on adobe…
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we tried to go to the encaustic gallery just north of Cerrillos, but alas it was only open on the weekend…luckily it had cool things by the gate though…
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Our days were full, our goodbyes were heartfelt…I headed home…
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