Nedra Metteucci Gallery in Santa Fe
Recently my husband and I decided to take a day trip out of town to decompress and have some fun. I did have business in Taos to attend to, so we decided a scenic drive was in order. We left early in the morning and headed up towards Santa Fe and beyond, one of our goals was to eat lunch at Rancho de Chimayo before arriving at our destination. After a yummy New Mexican meal we headed back towards Espanola and on northward along the Rio Grande. Taos was beautiful, as usual, and deserves a whole other post of its own someday. We walked around Taos for a while, ate ice cream on the plaza and it was already time to go! We returned through Los Alamos and had a beautiful drive through the Jemez mountains as the sun was getting low and casting it's magic golden spell on everything it touched. It had just rained and the forest was light filled and misty, with rain drop sparkles catching the eye. It was a fabulous day that renewed our spirits and made us glad in our hearts.
Driving through Nambe Pueblo
Sacred Heart Church
lonely desert on the way to Chimayo
Santuario de Chimayo
San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in upon arriving in Taos
~Returning Home~
Black Mesa
Santa Clara Pueblo
Overlook on the road to Los Alamos
Jemez Mountains
Los Conchas after the fire
One week before the fire that started in June, 2011,
the largest NM wildfire in state history at that time.
We were camping/hiking in the area before it started.
(hazey at the time from forest fires in Arizona blowing smoke/ash over NM)
End of Day
2 comments:
Such amazing pictures! and what a fantasy for someone in Bavaria to pop over to Mexico - shades of painters like Frida Kahlo and Georgia o'Keeffe...and you.
Beautiful! We saw the fire damage at Los Conchas last week and thought it was more recent, not knowing the history of the area. I've never seen anything quite like it, but did notice that beneath the bare trees the understory was quite green from the recent rains. And there are suddenly a lot of mosquitos up here in Placitas!
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