Un Poco Mas de Santa Fe y Taos

We spent a couple of more good days in Santa Fe, and on the last day, made a visit to Taos. I do love a walk up the arroyo with Anna, but my favorite walks in Santa Fe take me to town. We were pleased to be in Santa Fe for Anders' birthday and I made a couple of pies for his celebration. In town, we returned to the Rainbow Man shop between Cathedral Park and the Plaza on East Palace Avenue to buy two Pendleton Blankets for our collection: a belated anniversary present. After our visit to Taos, we stopped at Ranchos de Taos to see San Francisco de Asis, the famous adobe church. We had lunch at Ranchos Plaza Grill, an excellent, quaint New Mexican restaurant on the plaza at Ranchos.

 Dinner with boys at Tacos Fundacion on Guadalupe Street 

while the parents were in Wyoming

Mediocre sushi for Anders birtday

 Birthday presents for Anders

 Lemon and chocolate pies for the fifteen-year-old

 Cactus blossoms on my morning walk

 Morning walk to town

 Vendors at the Loretto Chapel on my morning walk

 Hollyhocks on Canyon Road on another morning walk

 Grammy and Clara sewing up a storm

 San Geronimo Church within the Taos Pueblo

 North House

 Adobe and turquoise

 Clara, Lucy, Grammy, and North House

 Our very fine tour guide with the original San Geronimo 

ruins in the rear

 Red Willow Creek is the lifeline of the pueblo

 North House from the creek bank

Precious water from the glacial Blue Lake high in the Taos Pueblo

Wilderness Area, was returned to the tribe by Richard Nixon in 1970

 Appreciative tourists

 The San Geronimo gate

 San Francisco de Asis in Ranchos de Taos

 The sturdy adobe structure has been a favorite subjects for 

artists over the years

 Ranchos Plaza Grill is charming and....

 The food was excellent

 Two beautiful additions to our Pendleton blanket collection

Adios Santa Fe; hasta luego

We had a most enjoyable visit, and then we were off to Arizona for a Boynton family reunion. So there is more, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.

Lucy Jane's Graduation

29 May 2018, we headed down the road (actually it's up) to Santa Fe for Lucy Jane's graduation from Santa Fe Prep. The very day was 31 May, our 46th anniversary! Bill and Jlynn came from Hawaii and it was a nice time for the families to be together for a great occasion.The Hastings' home was being tested for radon and they couldn't open the windows, so we were glad we took our fan.

 Supper at the Shake Foundation on the first night

 Walking the arroyo with Anna, Anders, and Bella

 Unbelievable, brilliant red cactus blossoms in the arroyo

 Lunch on the 30th at Clafouti's

 Lucy's Baccalaureate was held in the beautiful

Saint Francis Auditorium

 Courtyard and portal

 The family gathered following the Baccalaureate

The pasty dough failed three times so I made meat pie

A beautiful spot on....

 A lovely evening for an alfresco meal

Pop Pop and the boys

 Gifts for the graduate

The beautiful graduate with her graduation bouquet

 Lucy was honored with the Robert W. Kurth Humanities Award

 Graduate and family

 Post-grad lunch back at the Shake Foundation

 A Santa Fe walking tour: it was Jlynn's first time in town

 Seventeenth-century San Miguel Mission

 Loretto Chapel, 1873

 Miraculous Stairway built for the Sisters of Loretto by

St. Joseph the carpenter

 MoCNA from the Cathedral 

 Shiprock Santa Fe is upstairs in the building on the corner

 Shiprock Santa Fe is a wonderful gallery with traditional and 

contemporary artifacts and art

 Everything reminds me of Uncle Tony

 Ganado reds

 Such wonderful colors in these contemporary weavings

 Enjoying Santa Fe

Late afternoon in Cathedral Park

Graduation dinner at the Ranch House

Rob's Grandmother died just before the trip and so the Hastings all flew off to Salt Lake City so they could attend the funeral in Star Valley, WY. We stayed behind with the kids and had a few more days in Santa Fe. So there is more, but this is all for now.

OXO 

D.