Santa Fe Thursday Evening

We just finished dinner at Andiamo with our friend, Laurence Lebreton, and are coming to the close of our last Thursday in Santa Fe for this trip. Tomorrow we will meet a friends and Saturday, more friends, and then Sunday morning we begin heading east towards Tennessee. It is definitely with mixed emotions that we are leaving.
I look forward to seeing my roses! It is time to prepare them for the spring growing season. I look forward to seeing friends in Tennessee. We have met so many wonderful people there. I look forward to cooking in my own kitchen with my good cookware and spices and seasonings. As nice as the restaurants here are, I am tired of eating out so often. I look forward to being with our artwork and our own rooms. And I look forward to framing the three pieces that we bought on this trip which I will photograph when we frame them.
One is a small ink drawing and the other is a serigraph by Robert Daughters entitled "Three Poplars". The third is a new retabolo by the Montoyas of San Rafael the Archangel. I look forward to being within driving distance to the North Carolina members of our clan: Josh, Roe, Josie, Chloe, and Dylan. Here are Chloe and Josie (on the right) who are dressed for a Dr. Seuss Horton Hears A Who Party!! And here is Dylan on the left! They grow up so fast and I can't wait to see them!


We both are going to miss our friends here in Santa Fe. We will definitely miss the sky. The sky......... ahhhhhh, the sky. And the mountains. And the chamisas and junipers and pinons and the smell of wood burning in the horno ovens. And the food (even though we are tired of eating out...). And the colors. And the architecture and adobe and the way the setting sun makes the cottonwood trees glow. And the small dirt streets and the courtyard walls with wooden gates.
Walking to Kaune's for groceries then walking home, the
Cathedral and breakfast at LaFonda. And I am pretty sure that the list goes on and on. Santa Fe is rich in color, light, beauty, art, soul, culture, and spirit. We will surely return. It could not have been a more satisfying sabbatical or a more healing environment.
Thank you, Santa Fe.