Sunday, September 25, 2011

Day 22 - The Turquois City

 Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Plaza, Santa Fe
 Miraculous staircase built by itinerant carpenter in Loretto Chapel
 93-year-old New Mexico Museum of Art, a Spanish Pueblo Revival building
 New Mexico Museum of Art
 Canyon Road Native American Art Gallery
Canyon Road

Beginning to get a bit redundant, but we really did have another beautiful day.  Arrived in Santa Fe about 10:30 am.  Adobe and turquoise everywhere.  Adobe buildings hundreds of years old and newer adobe buildings.  We even saw a Target made of adobe tonight.  The very old adobe buildings like the one housing the New Mexico Museum of Art look amazingly contemporary because of their clean, angular architecture. And turquoise!  Turquoise jewelry, turquoise shopping bags, turquoise benches, and turquoise trim on buildings.  Luckily, the terracotta color of adobe and turquoise go together quite well.

Really liked the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.  There were just a few rooms of her paintings and one other featured artist.  It was easy to get through the entire museum in 45 minutes.  Eliminates boredom and burnout.  I love art as well as most, but art overload can be numbing.

Santa Fe purports to have the oldest church and the oldest house in the US.  We visited both.  We enjoyed two outdoor art shows.  Spent quite a bit of time on Canyon Road, a very long stretch lined with elite art galleries.  Art galleries also abounded on side streets off Canyon Road.  We didn’t go into many galleries, but they were so beautifully landscaped and adorned with wonderful sculptures that it was well worth the long walk.

We liked Santa Fe.  Found it a very walkable city.  To us it was a faster paced, upscale version of Old Town, Albuquerque. 

Signing off until tomorrow, Bill and Marsha, moving north

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